Tree Quotes

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Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water… — Betty Smith
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were… — Ernest Hemingway
How can it be?" she wondered. "I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns(....) But not to see them at all,… — Peter S. Beagle
It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and… — C.S. Lewis
I love a tree more than a man. — Ludwig van Beethoven
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at… — Allen Ginsberg
Who's thisâ€”alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and Iâ€” It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone and grass and… — Siegfried Sassoon
The tree that never had to fight for sun and sky and air and light but stood out in the open plain and always got… — Douglas Malloch
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey. — William Blake
If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?" All have their worth," said… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas. — Kate Horsley
I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories… — Saul Williams
I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway,… — Truman Capote
and if i if i ever let love go because the hatred and the whisperings become a phantom dictate i o- bey in lieu of… — June Jordan
For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling.… — Franz Kafka
He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Oh to be a pear tree â€“ any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! — Zora Neale Hurston
I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau… — Sylvia Plath
Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups.… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any… — Arthur Golden

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