Tree Quotes

4223 quotes by 2276 authors

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
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
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. — Thomas Hardy
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
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
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
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
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
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
Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity. — Thomas Jefferson
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
i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people — Marge Piercy
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
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
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-ExupÃ©ry
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
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
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
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
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos â€” the trees, the clouds, everything. — Nhat Hanh

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