It was a matter of not seeing the woods for the trees. Glorious songs have been in Ireland forever, but a lot… — Phil Coulter Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're… — Carolyn Chute Copy Share Image
She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the heat of… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The tree or the road - the ones I know of, finally they are the only characters I know really. The human… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky… — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
I've put out records over the years, whether it's with Blackfield or No-Man or Bass Communion or Porcupine Tree, that are pop… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature.… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. “There is a rock of greed over here,… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“Windisch hears a leaf on the stones in the hallway. It's scratching on the stones. The wall is long and white. Windisch… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
Good timber does not grow with ease: The stronger wind, the stronger trees; The further sky, the greater length; The more the… — Douglas Malloch Copy Share Image
The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get… — Kyle Gallner Copy Share Image
Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Every tree, every plant, has a spirit. People may say that the plant has no mind. I tell them that the plant… — Pablo Amaringo Copy Share Image
I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer,… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
