Pine Quotes
197 quotes by 163 authors
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She (my ex-wife) wanted me to stop being Evel Knievel. I am who I am. I'm not going to change. I'll settle down the day…
— Evel Knievel
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It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.
— Euell Gibbons
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Many parts of a pine tree are edible.
— Euell Gibbons
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It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge…
— Henry David Thoreau
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To pine for an alternative past is a waste of energy. In the pristine world of your infinite spiritual self, there is no sin or…
— Stuart Wilde
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The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about…
— Henry David Thoreau
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No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.
— Frank Bolles
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The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And…
— Matsuo Basho
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Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.
— Matsuo Basho
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There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are…
— Zhuangzi
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The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted…
— Christopher Atkins
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Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my…
— Hope Davis
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The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the…
— James Lee
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Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine…
— Peter York
Who Wrote These Pine Quotes
163 authors contributed a total of 197 Pine Quotes, led by these top contributors: