Tree Quotes

4223 quotes by 2276 authors

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city. — Plato
Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew… — Bernard of Clairvaux
The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it… — Marcus Aurelius
The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above. — William C. Bryant
The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The… — William Faulkner
Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the… — Gautama Buddha
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. — John Dryden
And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men.… — Joseph Rodman Drake
The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and… — William Cowper
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree,… — William Cowper
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze. — William Cowper
No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar. — William Cowper
We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree. — William Cowper
O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so… — Robert Southey
And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But… — Robert Southey
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really… — Mary Oliver
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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