We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli… — Berthe Morisot Copy Share Image
I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful place where flowers grow in colors beyond the words of poets... trees sing with the songs of butterflies.… — Laurel Burch Copy Share Image
I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and… — Zhang Xiaogang Copy Share Image
When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house. — Ty Pennington Copy Share Image
The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land. — Felicia Hemans Copy Share Image
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt Copy Share Image
Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth. — Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax 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
If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There are two types of woman - those who don't do anything with accessories and those who wear so many that they… — Gok Wan Copy Share Image
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii,… — Marcel Proust 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
He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd… — Dave Cook Copy Share Image
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
If a fan comes up and it is a middle-aged lady, it is probably from 'Prime'; if it is a younger girl,… — Bryan Greenberg Copy Share Image
If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things;… — Igor Levit Copy Share Image
We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry? — George Iles Copy Share Image
Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Yes, I am just a type who likes to watch the cat out of the tree. I want to start quietly, and… — Jaap Stam Copy Share Image
Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Trees have as much individuality as human beings. Not even two spruces are alike. There is always some kink or curve or… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I left the jutra to chop wood. I began my walk through the snow, five kilometers to the tree line. That's when… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky? — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy… — William Jay Gaynor Copy Share Image
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Up to the days of Indiana's early statehood, probably as late as 1825, there stood, in what is now the beautiful little… — Maurice Thompson Copy Share Image
... I am more of an ambler. I once overheard my old boss in Dublin describe me as very "hello trees, hello… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image