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
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
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
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
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
There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from… — John Hay Copy Share Image
As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be… — Wooden Leg Copy Share Image
Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
'The Lorax,'...it's a mythical, woodland creature, right, who's for saving trees. He speaks for the trees because no one else can. Kind… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“She was going to plant a Japanese maple tree on top. She had already procured it, a lovely sapling with pale bark… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think… — 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
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
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
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
How dreadful it is that because of our wills we can never love anything without messing it around! We couldn’t even love… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
People peep into boxes at moving stereoscopic prints, imagining they're in other worlds, and the crowd around a glassblower wonders whether icicles… — Haruo Shirane Copy Share Image
I had my first kiss under a tree near the school. It was with a boy named Michael who rarely spoke, but… — Paula Abdul Copy Share Image
How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
O days remember'd well! remember'd all! The bitter sweet, the honey and the gall; Those garden rambles in the silent night, Those… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how? The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair; I wake to sleep,… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
But look at Avatar (2009), one of the most globally viewed pieces of entertainment to have ever been made - the central… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the… — Hannah Kearney Copy Share Image
Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
