Tree Quotes

4223 quotes by 2276 authors

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of sceneryâ€”air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy. — Sylvia Plath
I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The… — Alexander Pushkin
Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me. — Haruki Murakami
Trees're always a relief, after people. — David Mitchell
You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the… — David Levithan
In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities… — Victor Hugo
If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not… — James M. Barrie
A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made… — Robin Hobb
Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like… — Thomas Hardy
time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough — E E Cummings
A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And… — C.S. Lewis
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach… — John F. Kennedy
The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause;… — Virginia Woolf
One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a… — Khaled Hosseini
Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a… — Harper Lee
Caddy smelled like trees. — William Faulkner
I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as… — Edward Abbey
I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree. — SaigyÅ
...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesnâ€™t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here… — Barbara Kingsolver
Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone. — Czeslaw Milosz

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