Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
My grandad used to say 'You're at the top of your tree,' and even though I wasn't, it always spurred me on. — Harris Dickinson Copy Share Image
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees. — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees -… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in… — Dan Kieran Copy Share Image
She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
“Much like people, the seed always contained the tree. It just needed water and soil to release it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower,… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The condom has saved so many lives, and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the… — Mechai Viravaidya Copy Share Image
I'm not speaking metaphorically, plants that you have in your house, or if you've ever made friends with a tree somewhere, there… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer... — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Jolly boating weather, And a hay harvest breeze, Blade on the feather, Shade off the trees. — William Johnson Cory Copy Share Image
I get tired of the same albums, the same look and singing the same songs. When I get bored I paint, I… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“There's a special kind of man who plants a tree when he knows he'll move on before it's big enough for him… — Sandra Dallas Copy Share Image
Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ...… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!" — Dexter Kozen Copy Share Image
It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given. — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into… — Clive Anderson Copy Share Image
My sister and I were very adventurous. We'd play in the park across the road in our imaginary tree house for hours… — Asher Keddie Copy Share Image
At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Many people never stop to realize that a tree is a living thing, not that different from a tall, leafy dog that… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image