You either keep the forest standing, which takes jobs away from indigenous people who need to feed themselves, or you cut down… — Johan Eliasch Copy Share Image
“The genealogical trees at the end of the Red Book of Westmarch are a small book in themselves, and all but Hobbits… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Have you ever stepped outside and looked around, and even though it’s very familiar territory—you’ve seen it a dozen times before—it instantly… — E.L. Montes Copy Share Image
“Laura's mind was already racing with the creative possibilities presented to her. She whipped out her sketchbook and started to work away… — Paula Brackston Copy Share Image
God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
“Knyghtwood, though the gales had stripped away most of its leaves, had not lost its fascination for Ben and the twins. Indeed,… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“In our part of the country, spring passes quickly. If you haven't been out for five days, you find the trees in… — Xiao Hong Copy Share Image
Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving,… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“Palestine, When you rain Grass grows and trees foliate. The fields bloom orange and lemon. Swaying green spikes and figs and olives… — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that's why we should always be… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
“Here’s my personal request to you: If you own any private land at all, plant one tree on it this year. If… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“The fig tree grows its flowers strangely inside out, concealed within the soft interior of the fruit. Erszébet imagines the fig's hidden… — Jody Shields Copy Share Image
I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“The "Avenue," so called by the Newbridge people, was a stretch of road four or five hundred yards long, completely arched over… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“And then Jonah heard God’s voice. “Jonah, do you know what the difference is between you and the trees?” He was confident… — David W. Jones Copy Share Image
But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
God is all that is. Since everything that exists is God, in one form or another, the only way that God can… — Tolly Burkan Copy Share Image
Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, —… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“Leaves that rustled, twigs that scraped and rattled. But the thin shapes weren't falling, they were scurrying head first down the tree-trunks… — Ramsey Campbell Copy Share Image
“Every once in a while, an up-or-down-leg goes on for a long time and/or to a great extreme and people start to… — Howard Marks Copy Share Image
“Place" On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree what for not the fruit the tree… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“I planted a tree. You’d think my neighbors would be happy for the shade it would provide them, but no, they said… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open,… — Frances O'Roark Dowell Copy Share Image
She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara… — Magnus Larsson Copy Share Image
I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be,… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The thorn tree just began to bud And greening stained the sheltering hedge, An many a violet beside the wood Peeped blue… — John Clare Copy Share Image
We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
