Growing Tree Quotes by Maria Montessori, John F. Kennedy, Joseph Beuys, William Jay Gaynor, William Butler Yeats, J. Willard Marriott and many others.
Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn’t reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, “In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it is a slowly growing tree with a kind of really solid heartwood. It has always been a form of sculpture, a symbol for this planet.
You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God, that all good growth is slow growth.
BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.
Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning’s will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
