Pine Quotes
197 quotes by 163 authors
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When you smell our candles burning, what does it make you think of, my child?" Winterfell, she might have said. I smell snow and smoke…
— George R. R. Martin
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A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a…
— Heinrich Heine
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But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.
— Virginia Woolf
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I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine,…
— Aldo Leopold
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One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.
— Sherwood Smith
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I get the feeling you'd rather pine over someone you can never possibly be with than try being with someone you can.
— Cassandra Clare
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so, when I spotted a cougar stretched out on a thick pine tree branch near the park gates, I wasn't surprised. I can't say the…
— Kelley Armstrong
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If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of…
— Edwin Way Teale
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No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine…
— Thomas Merton
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Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running…
— Charles Jencks
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I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.
— Heather Brooke
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If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.
— Homaro Cantu
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When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot…
— Ian Frazier
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The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of…
— Alice Morse Earle
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In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees…
— Seth Shostak
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When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly…
— Hamish Bowles
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To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass…
— Timothy Noah
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The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.
— Richard Engel
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Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my…
— John James Audubon
Who Wrote These Pine Quotes
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