Tree Quotes

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My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but can she climb a tree. — Henny Youngman
As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom… — Harry S. Truman
It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep… — D. H. Lawrence
Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things in which they were thought to be strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abraham in… — Dwight L. Moody
Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and... rememberest that what… — Marcus Aurelius
How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those people who behold… — Jean de la Bruyere
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the… — Bernard Baruch
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients… — Charles Caleb Colton
I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white. — Heinrich Heine
Wine makes all things possible. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, The Mystery Knight A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees… — George R. R. Martin
God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have… — William Faulkner
In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: â€˜like the China rose, like… — Victoria Finlay
Do you think trees are the new birds? Donâ€™t answer that right away. — Julie Klausner
Without the sleeping bag I'm just somebody up early in the morning, sitting under a tree. With the sleeping bag I'm nobody up early, sitting… — Craig Stone
Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and… — Bill Vaughan
Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee. — Robert Herrick
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn… — William Allingham

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