Tree Quotes

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An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking… — Nicholas Sparks
I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. — Khalil Gibran
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part… — Betty Smith
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later… — John Knowles
That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual… — L. Frank Baum
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You… — Louise Erdrich
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith… — Wendell Berry
Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches. — Lionel Shriver
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree… — Willa Cather
It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that manâ€”as he had long suspectedâ€”was… — Rafael Sabatini
What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from… — Radclyffe Hall
She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a… — Nicole Krauss
Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red… — Dave Eggers
I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed. — Nikos Kazantzakis
Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence. — John Knowles
I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to… — Yann Martel
and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree — Tori Amos
Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reasonâ€¦Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. Youâ€™re… — J D Salinger
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no… — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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