Nature Proverbs (426 Proverbs)
- Only birds of the same clan or species play together on the same tree.
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- The squirrel can beat the rabbit climbing a tree, but then the rabbit makes the best stew that sort of equalizes the thing.
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- The fruits of a tree on the roadside are never eaten ripe.
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- There are no short cuts to the top of a palm tree.
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- The roughness of a cotton tree is not known until you get close to it.
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- The predator lands on an unknown tree.
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- The one who went to the in-laws got trapped in a thorn tree.
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- The mouse says: I dig a hole without a hoe; the snake says: climb a tree without arms.
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- If you want to lean on a tree, first make sure it can hold you.
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- He who tries to shake a tree stump shakes only himself.
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- A wind can move the branches of trees but it will never move the head of a man.
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- A palm wine taper does not stop tapping palm wine because he once fell from the top of a palm wine tree.
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- The axe forgets; the tree remembers.
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- A strong tree shall always grow from the roots and not the seeds.
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- A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break.
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- A small shrub may grow into a tree.
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- A small axe is not sufficient to cut down a large tree.
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- A lizard without one leg cannot move up a tree.
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- If you don't eat mangos that fall on the ground, be sure to be strong enough to pick ones on the tree.
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- He who isn't around is never beaten by the falling tree.
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- Only when a tree has grown can you tie your cow to it.
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- If you debark a tree don't expect it to live again; you can only plant another of its kind.
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- During a storm you seek shelter under a tree and not the clouds.
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- On the day a monkey dies, all the trees are slippery.
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- No matter how tall a tree might grow it will always shed its leaves on the ground.
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- He is a fool who praises the fruit of a tree and forgets its roots.
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- A river doesn't flow through the forest without felling the trees.
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- Monkeys don't advise there young ones to be careful on trees they just remind them of the distance to the ground.
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- If money where to be found up in the trees, most people would be married to monkeys.
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- It's not the monkey on top that make a tree fall but it's the work and effort of numerous small insects and ants.
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- If a tree is cursed even its shade is unclean.
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- Being in the forest and failing to see trees is a curse.
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- It's better to fall from a tree and a break your back than to fall in love and break your heart.
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- If a bird does not recognise a tree, it will not rest on it.
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- If your vision is for a year plant wheat, if you vision is for a decade plant trees, and if your vision is for a lifetime plant people.
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- If you want to sit under a shade in your old age plant a tree now.
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- As long as there is no wind, the tree won't blow.
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- When you see a palm tree, the palm tree has seen you.
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- The day the monkey is destined to die, all the trees get slippery.
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- Don't show me the palm tree, show me the dates.
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- A good tree can lodge ten thousand birds.
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- Mother Nature, time and patience are the three best doctors.
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- If you want apples, you have to shake the trees.
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- Grapes do not grow in a willow tree.
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- Where blood has been shed the tree of forgiveness cannot grow.
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- Where is there a tree not shaken by the wind?
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- You are like a tree, giving your shade to the outside.
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- It is good to know the truth and to speak the truth. It is even better to know the truth and speak about palm trees.
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- God gave the giraffe a long neck so that He would not have to bend the palm tree.
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- Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.
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- If you cut down the trees you will find the wolf.
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- By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.
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- You don't have to cut a tree down to get at the fruit.
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- The elephant that is stuck in the mud will tear down the tree with it.
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- Often a branch is broken off the tree by the one who has rested in its shadow.
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- Don't climb a tree to catch a fish.
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- He who sees heaven in the water sees the fishes in the trees.
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- The one who plants the tree is not the one who will enjoy its shade.
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- The flatterer makes you climb up a tree then takes the ladder away.
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- The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is today.
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- Rivers and mountains may change; human nature, never.
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- One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.
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- No matter how tall the tree is, its leaves will always fall to the ground.
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- Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.
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- Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.
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- If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men.
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- To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.
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- To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
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- When the tree dies, the grass underneath withers.
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- Waiting for a rabbit to hit upon a tree and be killed in order to catch it.
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- To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.
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- As the virtue in the tree, such is the fruit.
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- A bad tree does not yield good apples.
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- A man without a woman is a tree without leaves and branches.
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- To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.
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- The tree is sure to be pruned before it reaches the skies.
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- It is easy to stride a tree when it is down.
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- He thinks to catch shell-fish in the trees.
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- A man must eat, though every tree were a gallows.
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- One generation plants the trees, the next eats the fruit.
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