Pines Quotes

65 Pines quotes by 56 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Woody Pines is the best band I ever heard in my life I swear. I'm their biggest fan now! — Billy Joe Shaver
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
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
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
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
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
A practical girl never pines; she takes action. — Adriana Trigiani
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
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
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
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
Oregon welcomed me like a beloved child, enfolded me in her cool arms, shushed my turbulent thoughts, and promised peace through her whispering pines. — Colleen Houck
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines;… — Theodore Roethke
Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If… — John Updike
We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains. There are clouds,… — Amy Carmichael
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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