Pine Quotes
197 quotes by 163 authors
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to…
— Diane Ackerman
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes, As stars look on the…
— Ernst Gottlieb Baron
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
— Aldo Leopold
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The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are…
— Enos Mills
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I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater…
— Alistair Cooke
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The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
— Horace
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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business…
— H. L. Mencken
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Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow…
— Haruki Murakami
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A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my…
— William Sharp
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All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.
— Reginald Fessenden
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The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a…
— Chief Seattle
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo
— Matsuo Basho
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How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the…
— Chief Seattle
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Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they…
— Loren Eiseley
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon…
— Hamlin Garland
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Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine…
— Edward Abbey
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The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Pine Quotes
163 authors contributed a total of 197 Pine Quotes, led by these top contributors: