It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man with no human feeling is like a flower without fragrance or a tree without leaves. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Mam loves to buy presents but she hates decorations. We once had a black Christmas tree because we had a new black… — Scarlett Moffatt Copy Share Image
The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things. — John Muir Copy Share Image
A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I've studied Kabbalah, as you know, for many years, so there are a lot of things I do that one would associate… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
We are faced with having to learn again about interdependency and the need for rootedness after several centuries of having systematically-and proudly-dismantled… — Paul L Wachtel Copy Share Image
The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
We always feel younger than we are. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum… — Tomas Transtromer Copy Share Image
“HAPPINESS I ASKED the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
