40 Bamboo Quotes From Proverbs to Bamboo's Sustainability

"Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant."
- Steve Lacy

"If it can't be done with bamboo, it probably shouldn't be done."
- Fred Hornaday

"Be like bamboo. The higher you grow, the deeper you bow."
- Chinese proverb

"SUMMER
the cattails sway
and the bamboo
dances gently into
the brightness of
a happy day."
- Tara Estacaan

"Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times."
- Ping Fu

"The sparrows chirped enchanting rhymes in unison, hoisted fine threads of bamboo sticks to their place of dwelling."
- Nikhil Parekh

"There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo!"
- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"A cuckoo cries and through a thicket of bamboo the late moon shines."
- Matsuo Basho

"The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn."
- Ramakrishna

"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."
- Bruce Lee

"Once a century, all of a certain kind of bamboo flower on the same day. Whether they are in Malaysia or in a greenhouse in Minnesota makes no difference, nor does the age or size of the plant. They flower. Some current of an inner language passes between them, through space and separation, in ways we cannot explain in our language. They are all, somehow, one plant, each with a share of communal knowledge."
- Linda Hogan

"Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings up from sand gravel soil through straw bamboo wood and less tangible elements."
- Olga Broumas

"The first year it sleeps, the second year it creeps, the third year it leaps."
- Popular saying

"Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all."
- Ian Somerhalder

"The key to great bamboo, Yamashita tells me, is space. Bamboo trees can reproduce for six years, but their roots need room to spread, and the sun needs room to bake the forest floor."
- Matt Goulding

"Dismantling weak foundations of cheap bamboo, tearing apart tin roofs from thatched hay, uprooting tree roots from deep recesses of ground."
- Nikhil Parekh

"We urgently need more trees, but we appear to believe that the only means of restoring them is planting. We have a national obsession with tree planting, which is in danger of becoming as tokenistic as bamboo toothbrushes and cotton tote bags."
- George Monbiot

"Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant."
- Matsuo Basho

"Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant."
- Morihei Ueshiba

"Better to have a meal without meat than a house without bamboo."
- Far Eastern proverb

"My mother always says, "The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak." I can be very focused and determined. But, I can also be very stubborn. Be flexible be nuanced."
- Sarah Lafleur

"Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved."
- Bai Juyi

"As a friend at a major American newspaper said to me when I complained about this tendency in his own paper, "You know how these media narratives are. They're like bamboo." Meaning, once they start growing, you can't kill them."
- George Weigel

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."
- Jodi Picoult

"Constructed of thin strips of bamboo loosely bound to make a flat, rectangular, but flexible surface, sushi mats help tightly roll together the seaweed, sticky rice and fillings to create a sushi roll."
- Xiaoyuan Yin

"But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees."
- Elliott Smith

"Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps."
- David Walker

"Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones."
- Diane Ackerman

"I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything."
- Eddie Huang

"Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit."
- Gautama Buddha

"Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things."
- Okakura Kakuzo

"A garden is to be enjoyed, and should satisfy the mind and not only the eye of the beholder. Sounds such as the rustle of bamboo and the dripping of water, scents and sensations such as grass or gravel or stone underfoot, appeal to the emotions and play a part in the total impression."
- Penelope Hobhouse

"Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs."
- Neal Stephenson

"Memory that yearns to join the center, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."
- Derek Walcott

"Golden bamboo wind beated Is far away care golden is the noble heart."
- Jingtao Zhang

"Ghostly smoke rises and fades away with a west wind strong in fields of small bamboo grasses and reedy fields."
- Yosa Buson

"An evening she had watched the moon made dizzy by the shaking of bamboo leaves, and on many a rainy day the smell of the wet earth."
- Rabindranath Tagore

"If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union."
- Sadao Araki

"You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow. Suddenly the snow slips to the ground without the leaf having stirred. Stay like that at the point of highest tension until the shot falls from you. So, indeed, it is: when the tension is fulfilled, the shot must fall, it must fall from the archer like snow from a bamboo leaf, before he even thinks it."
- Eugen Herrigel

"You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails."
- Stephenie Meyer