Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2276 authors
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She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the heat of a leviathan's roar,…
— Sonya Hartnett
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no…
— Robert Frost
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A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten…
— Francesca Lia Block
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A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or…
— Toni Morrison
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A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or…
— Max Ehrmann
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The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.
— Flannery O'Connor
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I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a…
— James Wright
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To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a…
— Yann Martel
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We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of…
— Michael Ondaatje
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He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although…
— Paulo Coelho
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own…
— John Muir
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Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their…
— Cormac McCarthy
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What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.
— Confucius
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I never felt magic crazy as this I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea I never held emotion in the palm of…
— Nick Drake
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Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way From a tree's summit
— John Keats
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These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves,…
— Anton Chekhov
Who Wrote These Tree Quotes
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