Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2276 authors
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I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know,…
— Lewis Carroll
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The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
— Nick Harkaway
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You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?' I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not…
— Marcel Proust
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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless…
— A. E. Housman
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The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.
— Jack Johnson
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When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the…
— Christina Rossetti
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And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.
— Billie Letts
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Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.
— Karen Joy Fowler
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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
— Shel Silverstein
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The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.
— Lisa Ann Sandell
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I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky…
— Miller Williams
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The…
— Victor Hugo
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In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees
— Philip Roth
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[Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp.…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? The…
— Emily Dickinson
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We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for…
— Marcel Proust
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The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.
— E. M. Forster
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Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--
— George Orwell
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On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree
— W S Merwin
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Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured…
— Joanne Harris
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