Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God,… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able… — John Muir Copy Share Image
For a long time humans probably were in touch on a deeper level with the depths of their being, unconsciously so, the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free. — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To walk on the road is a journey; to sit under the tree is a journey! Everything we do is a journey… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
I think in any father-son relationship, there's going to be times you say, 'Well, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.' — Michael Raymond-James Copy Share Image
Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every… — Julia Hill Copy Share Image
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Sometimes we'd have to climb a tree and pick our own whips to be disciplined with. When you had to pick your… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
“The tree seemed very sad to be involved in such a thing and it hung its dark head over them.” — Karen Foxlee Copy Share Image
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness. — George Iles Copy Share Image
At one point, I shook a tree full of fire ants on my head just to have some pain to distract me… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest,… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of 'The Color Purple.' It had a much different soundtrack and no trees,… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
