The Wisdom in Treebeard Quotes

Many of these trees were my friends.

I am not altogether on anybody?s side because nobody is altogether on my side.

I have not troubled about the Great Wars… You are just another set of Ruffians.

Ha, hm, come, my friends. The Entwives are gone, so we must be hasty.

Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.

Too long I have been idle. I must stop it.

The world is changing. I feel it in the tree, I smell it in the water.

I can not overlook this; I have seen so many things die.

We are tree-herders, we old Ents.

If you do not come back to us, then I will come back to you.

The Ents cannot hold back this storm. We must weather such things as we have always done.

In our long years, we have seen many things. Some good, others… not.

The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each to themselves.

I am on nobody’s side, because nobody is on my side, little orc.

We have long ceased to deal with them; we have made our peace. We have only good will left.

I am not altogether on anybody?s side, because nobody is altogether on my side.

But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way, and sometimes they are withered untimely.

Many of these trees were my friends. Creatures I had known from nut or acorn.

Do not be hasty, that is my motto.

I have no children, I am forgotten: the forest will forget me!

My home is deep in the forest near the roots of the mountains.

We are tree-herds, we old Ents.?

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery!

It is old, very old. So old that I almost feel young again, as I have not felt since I journeyed with you children.

You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish.

For the world is changing: I can feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.]

Do not be hasty, that is my motto.

I am not altogether on anybody’s side, because nobody is altogether on my side.

The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.

Many of these trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nut and acorn.

Side? I am on nobody’s side, because nobody is on my side, little orc.

We never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

I have told your names to the Entmoot, and we have agreed you are not Orcs.

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.

My home lies deep in the forest near the roots of the mountains.

I told Gandalf I would keep you safe and safe is where I’ll keep you.

We Ents cannot hold back this storm. We must weather such things as we have always done.

You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish.

He has a mind of metal and wheels; and he does not care for growing things, except as far as they serve him for the moment.

The lower part of the long face was covered with a sweeping grey beard, bushy, almost twiggy at the roots, thin and mossy at the ends.

Tall as trolls they were, twelve feet or more in height; their strong bodies, stout as young trees, seemed to be clad with raiment or with hide of close-fitted bark.