Mother loved the wind. When I was growing up, she would recite this poem to me. Who has seen the wind? Neither… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“To a Boy Boy, you are a hidden watering place under the trees where, as the day darkens, gentle beasts with calm… — Mutsuo Takahashi Copy Share Image
What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
I started finding hearts in things - whether it was like, a tree I was passing, a straw wrapper on the ground;… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Snowstorms may yet whiten fields and gardens, high winds may howl about the trees and chimneys, but the little blue heralds persistently… — Neltje Blanchan Copy Share Image
I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve… — J. California Cooper Copy Share Image
Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for… — Kathi Appelt Copy Share Image
For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
“Colored lights blink on and off, racing across the green boughs. Their reflections dance across exquisite glass globes and splinter into shards… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think,… — F. David Peat Copy Share Image
I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't… — Lemn Sissay Copy Share Image
“In a pine tree, A few yards away from my window sill, A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up… — James Wright Copy Share Image
The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. Its where intellectually impaired young people can… — Jessica McNamee Copy Share Image
I can't spend too much time in the forests because I invariably leave traces-ridiculously happy trees, basically, since I'm the last Druid… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who… — Michael Ellsberg Copy Share Image
We might as well expect to grow trees from leaves as hope to build up a civilization or a manhood without taking… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree. It is indeed "good-bye to summer"… — Neltje Blanchan Copy Share Image
FYI, there are basically only three things besides a vest that will stop a bullet: a tree trunk, the engine block of… — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
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“Then, without really realizing it, I start to think of one thing I did wrong for each tree I look at. Wide… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
[Henry Miller] was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Climate definitely interests the climate crowd at some science magazines, talks or blogs. Some blogs are amazing. They will post one comment… — Randy Olson Copy Share Image
The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
![“What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.” quote by Pierre-Auguste Renoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/506/pierre-auguste-renoir-7064_bits_what-i-like-so-much-about-corot-is-that_1016895.jpg)
![“I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories.” quote by J. California Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1f5/j-california-cooper-38277_brooms_i-was-telling-stories-before-i-could-wri_2320291.jpg)
![“[Henry Miller] was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters. For most of his life, Henry wrote literally dozens of letters a day to people he could have easily engaged in conversation - and did. The writing process, in short…” quote by Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/109/erica-jong-445_breaths_henry-miller-was-such-a-scribomaniac-tha_1241882.jpg)
