Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon 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
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. — Saadi Copy Share Image
I worked on "Tree of Life." It was just magical. It was like a little family. A fleeting, beautiful alliance to forge… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When… — Andy Couturier Copy Share Image
...you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb… — John Marston Copy Share Image
Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together. — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Let the children learn to see in nature an expression of the love and the wisdom of God; let the thought of… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“You don’t write a book when God called you to publish a library! You don’t plant a tree when God send you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
It boggles my mind that someone can see life breathed into a baby, watch the grass die and then come to life… — Bill McCartney Copy Share Image
My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
Everyone speaks of himself with regard to his ownself, "I am above and the others are below," whilst all of them are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I want the kids who watch 'One Tree Hill' to know that it's all pretend, and that the person at the core… — Hilarie Burton Copy Share Image
“At the end of my dream, Eve put the apple back on the branch. The tree went back into the ground. It… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
One thing that attracts me in Daoism and Heidegger is a delicate combination of recognizing deep differences between human being and any… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
