Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ.… — Elizabeth A. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Foolish man, what do you bemoan, and what do you fear? Wherever you look there is an end of evils. You see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
God not only loves his people but delights in each one of us. He takes great pleasure in us. He's actually blessed… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white… — John Updike Copy Share Image
This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians;… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A man, and a cat, and a dog, are all animals. These particular examples, as man, or dog, or cat, are parts… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How rich a God our God is! He gives enough, but we don't notice it. He gave the whole world to Adam,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“• He looked like a man cut away from the stake, when the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Happiness takes work. It doesn't always fall off trees or come easily. You really have to be someone that doesn't fall prey… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves… The promise of gold and… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I shall open my eyes and ears. Once every day I shall simply stare at a tree, a flower, a cloud, or… — Clyde S. Kilby Copy Share Image
I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees… — James Balog Copy Share Image
Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain, To drink into my eyes the shine Of every… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
My favorite season is autumn, and Maine is lovely for that reason. In Maine, autumn begins on July 29. That's when you… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The tree of love its roots hath spread Deep in my heart, and rears its head; Rich are its fruits: they joy… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true… — Buddhadasa Copy Share Image
“Bed in Summer In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You must bind up any wounds you give the earth and you must feed her to replace what you take from her.… — Morgan Llywelyn Copy Share Image
The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
