Lessons from the Oak Tree
Some Inspirational Oak Quotes
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow. - 14th century proverb
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns...faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. - E.F. Schumacher
Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another. - Shirley Ann Grau
One out of every 10,000 acorns will actually become a tree.
Nature always takes her time. Great oaks don't become great overnight. They also lose a lot of leaves, branches, and bark in the process of becoming great. - Andrew Matthews
Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn. - William Arthur Ward
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; a grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak. - James Russell Lowell
They say that an oak tree is brought into creation by two forces at the same time. Obviously, there is the acorn from which it all begins, the seed which holds all the promise and potential, which grows into the tree. Everybody can see that. But only a few can recognize that there is another force operating here as well - the future tree itself, which wants so badly to exist that it pulls the acorn into being, drawing the seedling forth with longing out of the void, guiding the evolution from nothingness to maturity. In this respect, say the Zens, it is the oak tree that creates the very acorn from which it was born. - Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today. - James Garville
