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

More quotes by Kahlil Gibran

View all
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."

- Kahlil Gibran

Compassion

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention."

- Kahlil Gibran

Compassion

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

- Kahlil Gibran

Resilience

"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."

- Kahlil Gibran

Belief

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but not make a bond of love: Let it be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

- Kahlil Gibran

Love

More Environment Quotes

View all
"What starts on Monday should carry through to Friday; that is, enthusiasm."

- Byron Pulsifer

Environment

"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."

- Alan Watts

Environment

"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the 'conquest' of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature."

- Alan Watts

Environment

"Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time."

Environment

"Bees are a sign of environmental health. A world without bees is a world that has lost its way."

Environment