'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks… — Tomson Highway Copy Share Image
The farther north you go, the fewer fruits and vegetables there are. What kind of apple trees do you suggest the Inuit… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
I realized that a tree never says, "I have too many branches." It simply digs deeper roots, expands itself to catch more… — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
It is doubtful that the dissection of living animals and plants could be done by those who believe them to be holy.… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with… — Gail Simmons Copy Share Image
We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
That's all I can do, is continue to plant the seeds; some will be trees, some will be plants, some will be… — Salaam Remi Copy Share Image
The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which… — Giambattista Basile Copy Share Image
The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a… — Gyorgy Kepes Copy Share Image
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks,… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
Gently I stir a white feather fan, With open shirt sitting in a green wood. I take off my cap and hang… — Li Bai Copy Share Image
Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford… — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“By now, at the end of a sloping alley, we had reached the shores of a vast marsh. Some unknown quality in… — R. Murray Gilchrist Copy Share Image
As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I knew he wouldn't come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of him to… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
![“At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite, a twisted tree are sculpted in this atmosphere basted with reflections. All that remains: a countryside of imperishable contours.” quote by Mohammed Dib](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9bd/mohammed-dib-57734_all-that-remains_at-present-in-the-desert-an-exasperating_2311683.jpg)
![“A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree” quote by Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d5f/thomas-merton-231_consent_a-tree-gives-glory-to-god-by-being-a-tre_2294763.jpg)
