Pine Quotes
197 quotes by 163 authors
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The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold…
— Wallace Stevens
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Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong,…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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A vase of flowers or greens will bring even a dull hotel room to life in the most delightful way. The small amount of trouble…
— Dorothy Draper
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Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.
— Daniel Woodrell
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Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor. Its uniformity protects…
— Greg Kramer
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You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all…
— Denise Levertov
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Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The…
— Edmund Spenser
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And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed…
— Toni Morrison
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A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally…
— Robert Fortune
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I do not expect anyone will ever have the opportunity of constructing another course like Cypress Point, as I do not suppose anywhere in the…
— Alister MacKenzie
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Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with…
— William James
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We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall, The elm tear…
— May Sarton
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It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens.
— Confucius
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Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
— Thomas Merton
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There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.
— John Hillaby
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The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can…
— William O. Douglas
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Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and…
— Bert Campaneris
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Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was…
— Homer
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Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.
— Andrei Platonov
Who Wrote These Pine Quotes
163 authors contributed a total of 197 Pine Quotes, led by these top contributors: