Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2276 authors
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I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness…
— Mary Oliver
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that…
— Albert Einstein
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Girls are like apples...the best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they…
— Pete Wentz
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I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take…
— Khaled Hosseini
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At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand.…
— C.S. Lewis
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I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant…
— Jeannette Walls
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There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't…
— Annie Dillard
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There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise…
— Obert Skye
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A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown…
— Arthur Golden
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Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds.…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!
— Joseph Campbell
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Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.
— Orson Scott Card
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O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to…
— Wendell Berry
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We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to…
— Jostein Gaarder
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The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being…
— Unknown Author
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Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.
— Rumiko Takahashi
Who Wrote These Tree Quotes
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