Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2276 authors
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Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Grampa took Mary Ellen inside away from the crowd. "Now, child, I am going to show you what my father showed me, and his father…
— Patricia Polacco
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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
— Thomas Hardy
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Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may…
— Rudyard Kipling
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And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in…
— Carl Sagan
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One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked so…
— Shel Silverstein
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My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard…
— Anna Sewell
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If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and…
— Louis Sachar
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The incident with Dawn hadn't been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn't expected to break any bones when I shoved her into a…
— Richelle Mead
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Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
— Thomas Jefferson
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A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad…
— J. Patrick Lewis
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i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people
— Marge Piercy
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If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred…
— Confucius
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And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to…
— Douglas Adams
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I will be your friend,' I said. 'I will go home to my mother's house the way I did when I skinned my knees as…
— Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
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remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in…
— Hilda Doolittle
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What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched…
— Miranda July
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People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.
— Nhat Hanh
Who Wrote These Tree Quotes
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