TREEquotes

The greatest wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.
         ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You will go out in joy
    and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
    will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
    will clap their hands.

                                  ~ Isaiah 55

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.  ~John Muir
 

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!   ~John Muir

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.  ~John Muir

 

Think of a tree

When you think of a tree, you tend to think of a distinctly defined object; and on a certain level, it is.

But when you look more closely at the tree, you will see that ultimately it has no independent existence.

When you contemplate it, you will find that it dissolves into an extremely subtle net of relationships that stretches across the universe.

The rain that falls on its leaves,

the wind that sways it,

the soil that nourishes and sustains it,

all the seasons and the weather, moonlight and starlight and sunlight - all form part of this tree.

As you begin to think about the tree more and more, you will discover that everything in the universe helps to make the tree what it is, that it cannot at any moment be isolated from anything else, and that at every moment its nature is subtly changing.

~Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying