“Before you there lie the Steppes, my darling—only the Steppes, the naked Steppes, the Steppes that are as bare as the palm… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“I have seen trees that survive fire. Their bark is burned and their limbs are dead branches. But hidden under that skeleton… — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
“they climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“But when I look at this work, I see in that tree, hoarded like rain, all the love a man could feel… — Cisneros Sandra 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
“When finally the sky grew ink-black, the trees were visible only as their swaying branches blotted out the stars that crossed in… — Mark Helprin 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 swear, sometimes talking to you is like trying to converse with a tree. A very big, very solid, very male tree.” — Julie Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“When the Root and Branch were young, when the Rose still grew unplucked upon the tree; when all our lands were new… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
I have a lot of palm trees, because they say to me holidays and ocean. I grew up very poor and I… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
When we distributed the paper and crayons, they were fighting over the blue crayon. Everyone wanted to start with the blue, and… — Connie Sellecca 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
I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees,… — Ireland Baldwin Copy Share Image
You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree. — Jorge Valdano Copy Share Image
No matter how tall a tree may grow, it will always shed its leaves on the ground. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover. — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
A Bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust not on the branch but on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing… — William of Conches Copy Share Image