Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2276 authors
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It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being…
— Helen Fielding
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The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of…
— Ayn Rand
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...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
— Charles Bukowski
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Thin clouds form, and the shadows lengthen out. They have no breadth, as summer shadows have; there are no leaves on the trees or fat…
— Stephen King
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What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.
— Haruki Murakami
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Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently…
— Mark Helprin
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I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.
— Dr. Seuss
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The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit…
— Lord Byron
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One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.
— Martin Buber
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In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.
— Dean Koontz
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The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid's cabin looked like an iced cake.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere,…
— Freeman Dyson
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She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Spring: trees flying up to their birds
— Paul Celan
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I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and…
— Maya Angelou
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The night you gave me my birthday party... you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than…
— Sara Teasdale
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It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from…
— Dag Hammarskjold
Who Wrote These Tree Quotes
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