If you want apples, you have to shake the trees…
Posted by nabil medawar in Nature Quotes, tags: Tree, trees
- A big tree attracts the wind.~ Chinese Proverb
- As a twig is bent the tree inclines.~ Virgil
- A small shrub may grow into a tree.~ African Proverb
- A tree does not grow from the sky.~ Bosnian Proverb
- A tree falls the way it leans.~ Bulgarian Proverb
- By trying repeatedly, the monkey learns how to jump from the tree.~ Cameroon Proverb
- Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.~ Abraham Lincoln
- Don’t climb a tree to catch a fish.~ Chinese Proverb
- Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.~ Martin Luther
- Even the best tree sometimes has bad fruit.~ Hungarian Proverb
- Every great oak tree was once a nut that stood its ground.~ Author Unknown
- Every tree feels the force of the wind.~ Afghan Proverb
- Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.~ Ethiopian Proverb
- First I shake the whole apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.~ Martin Luther
- Friendship is a sheltering tree.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- From the withered tree, a flower blooms.~ Author Unknown
- He that planteth a tree …provideth a kindness for many generations.~ Henry Van Dyke
- He that would have fruit must climb the tree.~ Thomas Fuller
- He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.~ Roy L. Smith
- He who leans against a big tree will always find shade.~ Albanian Proverb
- He who sees heaven in the water sees the fishes in the trees.~ Chinese Proverb
- If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my ax.~ Abraham Lincoln
- Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.~ Chinese Proverb
- Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.~ Kahlil Gibran
- Never celebrate until you are really out of the woods. They might be behind the last tree.~ Author Unknown
- No matter how tall the tree is, its leaves will always fall to the ground.~ Chinese Proverb
- Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing “Embraceable You” in spats.~ Woody Allen
- One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.~ Chinese Proverb
- Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.~ Warren Buffett
- The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.~ Chinese Proverb
- The leafiest tree doesn’t always have the juiciest fruit.~ Panamanian Proverb
- The man who sees both sides of an issue is very likely on the fence or up a tree.~ Author Unknown
- The one who plants the tree is not the one who will enjoy its shade.~ Chinese Proverb
- The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.~ Arabian Proverb
- The tree that is not taller than you cannot shade you.~ African Proverb
- To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.~ Chinese Proverb
- To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.~ Phyllis Bottome
- When the big tree falls, the goat eats its leaves.~ African Proverb
- When the tree falls, the shadow flies.~ Chinese Proverb
- Where blood has been shed the tree of forgiveness cannot grow.~ Brazilian Proverb
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