99 Ultimate Tree of Life Quotes

Tree of Life Quotes – If we don’t find orientation and meaning in life, we are bound to make up life and create inspiring life stories. Here are our tree of life quotes and sayings to help you dance with every step of life faithfully.

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Tree of life sayings

Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern. — George Edward Woodberry

It’s a feminine universe, and every person who has ever tried to convince you otherwise is doing little more than pounding on his mother’s breast, enraged by the predicament he faces as a leaf, dangling from the tree of life. — Anohni When

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned. — Gerard De Nerval

Most of the tree of life is effectively arranged. — Simon Conway Morris

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. — Paul Kurtz

The tree of life for me is a symbol of abundance and eternal life. — Akiane Kramarik

I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become One Circle again. — Crazy Horse

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow. — Jane Hirshfield

Tree of life quotes

The tree of life may have a thousand leaves but all these leaves are the same tree. — Wald Wassermann

I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever-branching and beautiful ramifications. — Charles Darwin

Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us. — D. H. Lawrence

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons. — Saul Williams

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. — Lord Byron

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. — Willa Cather

Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit appear at the same time, full of refreshment for sense and for soul. — Lucy Larcom

I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. — D. H. Lawrence

We spring from one great tree of life; when the root of the tree is watered with love, we all thrive. — Janet Autherine

Tree of life sayings to driven your purpose

My worthy friend, gray are all theories. And green alone Life’s golden tree. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Once you are enlightened, you don’t do wrong things. You don’t take to wrong things. Then you start understanding all these prophets, all these great incarnations, you start understanding what they were. Then you understand that all these religions have come out of one Tree of Life, which is spirituality. — Nirmala Srivastava

The end is also the beginning. In order to arrive at your destiny, you must first accept the path that lies ahead. It is paved with loss, betrayal, and sorrow, but the circle is not at its end You must continue on until you find your true center and your peace. — Brynn Myers

Love is the sap of the tree of Life. — Banani Ray

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This tree is indeed a Tree of Life, for without the higher and finer sentiments man does not life; he merely exists. If any branch of that tree does not bear fruit, the Master tells us that it shall be cut off and cast into the fire. — Manly Hall

The spine is the tree of life. Respect it. — Martha Graham

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are. — Virginia Woolf

As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications. — Charles Darwin

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. — William Blake

Inspirational quotes about tree of life

We are the Guardians of the Tree of Life. We have been given the blessing and honour to protect it and to help others to taste its fruits with love and compassion. The Tree of Life teaches us to carry and share ‘Love’ and only ‘Love’. ― Ricky Saikia

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. — William Shakespeare

I worked on ’Tree of Life.’ It was just magical. It was like a little family. A fleeting, beautiful alliance to forge something meaningful. It was amazing, like a transcendental experience to be on the set. — Sam Pressman

Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham. — Sadat X

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table. — D. H. Lawrence

Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it. — Franz Kafka

It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches – a tree of life. — Ricki Lake

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. — William Wordsworth

Quotes about being the tree of life

Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. — Robert Zubrin

Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. — George Edward Woodberry

The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However, much death may come, much blood may flow, the music will dance men and women as long as the air breaths them and the land plows and loves them. — Eduardo Galeano

We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom – it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world of ’now’ with the world of the ancestors, and is part of the great tree of life extending in time and eternity. — Sheila Kitzinger

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? — Walt Whitman

And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant. — John Milton

Tree of life meaning quotes

Earth allows several levels for Soul to gain experience in life, including the mineral, plant, fish, animal and human stages. — Harold Klemp

Green is my favorite. And it’s my favorite because it’s the color of my wife’s eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth! — Casper Van Dien

The leaves on the Tree of Life are for the healing of the nations, but what are the fruits for? They must be just for the pleasure of eating! — David Berg

In one twig of the tree of life, namely ours, having a big brain happened to have advantages. But that’s just what worked for a particular species of primate 5 to 7 million years ago. — Steven Pinker

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. — Henry David Thoreau

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

All theory, dear friend is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it. — A. E. Waite

Nature tree of life quotes

There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there is eternal spring, and light without any cloud. The tree of life growth in the midst thereof; rivers of pleasures are there, and flowers that never fade. — Anna Letitia Barbauld

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress. — Charles Darwin

The forest waves, the morning breaks,
The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,
Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be
And life pulsates in rock or tree. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground. — William James

What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we’ve studied so far on Earth belongs to the same tree. We share genes with mushrooms and oak trees and fish and bacteria that live in volcanic vents and so on that it’s all the same life descended from a common origin. — Paul Davies

The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies. — Bob Dylan

Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, ’This riddle of life has been solved.’ — Max Delbruck

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Spiritual tree of life quotes

Let us pray God that He would root out of our hearts every thing of our own planting, and set out there, with His own hands, the tree of life, bearing all manner of fruits. — Francois Fenelon

It boggles my mind that someone can see life breathed into a baby, watch the grass die and then come to life again, see leaves fall and watch the rebirth of a tree, or gaze on any of the majestic splendor that is this earth and not be overpowered by the presence of an Almighty God! — Bill McCartney

The word of God is a tree of life that offers us blessed fruit from each of its branches. It is like that rock which was struck open in the wilderness, from which all were offered spiritual drink. — Ephrem the Syrian

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us. — Franz Kafka

On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. — John the Apostle

The greatest attribute of God is Love. The Tree of Life is located in the very depth of our soul. The most perfect and abundant fruit that grows and ripens is Life giving Love; it is the great healing force in the world. — Baird T. Spalding

Learn a lesson from the branch. Although it has brought fruit for thirty years, the branch is well aware that the years of experience in bearing fruit is not a reason to be independent. The goal of God’s training is never to develop you to stand alone without Him. — Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

Maybe that’s why God had placed the angel at the Garden of Eden – to keep people away from the Tree of Life? Not to prevent them from having something good, but to protect them from something that had the potential to ultimately destroy the world? — Jody Hedlund

On top of the Tree of Life – in the Hall of the Palace – someone had found somebody for whom he had been searching for a long, long time. And the tears of joy which were shed became the fruit of the Tree of Life, the grapes whose juice is distilled by the flute of the blue god. — Miguel Serrano

Meaningful tree of life quotes

O trees of life, O when are you wintering? We are not unified, we have no instincts like those of migratory birds. Useless, and late, we force ourselves, suddenly, onto the wind, and fall down to an indifferent lake. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Don’t ever worry about losing those you love. Just remember that we are all on the same Tree of Life. — Iva Kenaz

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness. — Khalil Gibran

Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. — George Gordon Byron

I’d figured the band would need to be as resilient as metal, so I’d chosen one of the strongest trees in the world: lignum vitae. Latin for wood of life. — Kresley Cole

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. — Albert Einstein

Quotations about the tree of life

I’m planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots. — Andrea Koehle Jones

There are two great systems in the body of man: the tree of life, which is the arterial with its roots in the heart; and, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, i.e. the nervous system, which has its roots in the brain. These two ’trees’ are physical manifestations of a complicated network of branching energy currents in the aura or superphysical bodies. — Manly Hall

I’m planting a tree to remind me to be open and kindhearted. I’m planting a tree to teach me to make the world a better place. ― Andrea Koehle Jones

Male genitals are still called ’the tree of life’ by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals. — Barbara G. Walker

Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. — Rob Thurman

The tree is what is important, the tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn’t exactly desirable either. — Rob Thurman

I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life – this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can’t be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don’t have what we call intelligence, and they’re surviving just fine. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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