“Place" On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree what for not the fruit the tree… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
“I planted a tree. You’d think my neighbors would be happy for the shade it would provide them, but no, they said… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open,… — Frances O'Roark Dowell Copy Share Image
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara… — Magnus Larsson Copy Share Image
I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be,… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The thorn tree just began to bud And greening stained the sheltering hedge, An many a violet beside the wood Peeped blue… — John Clare Copy Share Image
We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
“At the end of the forest the guardian angel pointed to the village and said: ‘There you will find your mother. She… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I rode a bike around town when I was a kid, with my friends, but I never got into cycling as a… — Andy Samberg Copy Share Image
As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“In our part of the country, spring passes quickly. If you haven't been out for five days, you find the trees in… — Xiao Hong Copy Share Image
Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving,… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
“Palestine, When you rain Grass grows and trees foliate. The fields bloom orange and lemon. Swaying green spikes and figs and olives… — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that's why we should always be… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
“Here’s my personal request to you: If you own any private land at all, plant one tree on it this year. If… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“The fig tree grows its flowers strangely inside out, concealed within the soft interior of the fruit. Erszébet imagines the fig's hidden… — Jody Shields Copy Share Image
I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“The "Avenue," so called by the Newbridge people, was a stretch of road four or five hundred yards long, completely arched over… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“And then Jonah heard God’s voice. “Jonah, do you know what the difference is between you and the trees?” He was confident… — David W. Jones Copy Share Image
God is all that is. Since everything that exists is God, in one form or another, the only way that God can… — Tolly Burkan Copy Share Image
But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
On a certain day, month and year one should observe the ceremony of tree-planting. Thus, one fulfils one's responsibilities, serves one's fellow-beings… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all… — John Muir Copy Share Image
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When it comes to Washington, most people tend to think first of politics. But Washington is also a geographic and physical place.… — Katharine Graham Copy Share Image
“The children of the Kingdom of G-D are like the trees where the seasons change the outward appearance, but the root never… — Eric Walker Copy Share Image
“Sadness pulses out of us as we walk. I almost expect the trees to lower their branches when we pass, the stars… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image