You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

—Saint Bernard

About Saint Bernard

Saint Bernard refers primarily to Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153), a Christian saint, mystic, and reformer of the Cistercian order.

More quotations tagged with “trees”

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

—Publilius Syrus

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

—Joyce Kilmer

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

—Dr. Thomas Fuller

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