“The tree you behold, so fresh and alive, whose fruit seems to come without delay, has in reality been patiently maturing for… — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we… — Ernest Poole Copy Share Image
The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste. — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked… — James Balog Copy Share Image
When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
“...when all the time it was that grand tree, taking up half the garden with its roots and not allowing anything else… — Zadie Smith 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“That is a perfectly good mini Christmas tree. We are going to sell that to charity because that is what Christmas is… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Your chances of getting hit by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant. — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma. — Richard St. Barbe Baker 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
Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room. — Jane Hirshfield 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
Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as… — Andy Pick Copy Share Image
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins. — John Banville Copy Share Image
But it is never over; nothing ends until we want it to. Look, in shattered midnights, On black ice under silver trees,… — Gwendolyn MacEwen Copy Share Image
I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears. — Kwame Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood,… — Solomon Copy Share Image
The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber. — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's… — William Cowper 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 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/i/1f5/j-california-cooper-38277_brooms_i-was-telling-stories-before-i-could-wri_2320291.png)
