Pines Quotes
65 quotes by 56 authors
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I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of…
— Joseph Dalton Hooker
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Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him…
— Henry David Thoreau
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This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in a storm; so is society…
— Jean Charest
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old…
— Henry David Thoreau
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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this…
— Lydia M. Child
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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants and trees; this…
— Dogen
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Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Woody Pines is the best band I ever heard in my life I swear. I'm their biggest fan now!
— Billy Joe Shaver
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Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a substitute…
— Harvey Broome
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Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the…
— Richard Louv
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Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring - that delicious commingling of the perfume of arbutus, the odor of pines, and…
— Neltje Blanchan
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They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you dig…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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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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A practical girl never pines; she takes action.
— Adriana Trigiani
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On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret…
— Homer
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All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be…
— Derrick Jensen
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I have to seek God beauty. Because isn't my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship? . True Beauty worship, worship of…
— Ann Voskamp
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Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic.…
— Amy Gerstler
Who Wrote These Pines Quotes
56 authors contributed a total of 65 Pines Quotes, led by these top contributors: