Tree Quotes

4223 quotes by 2276 authors

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches… — Laurie Halse Anderson
With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind… — George Santayana
If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise? — Brad Warner
My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road Iâ€™d ever seen, where… — Melina Marchetta
As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few… — Gustave Flaubert
Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy… — May Sarton
..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things… — Zora Neale Hurston
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and… — Zora Neale Hurston
Yes, he is here in this open field, in sunlight, among the few young trees set out to modify the bare facts-- he's here, but… — Denise Levertov
If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly… — Audre Lorde
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and… — Marisha Pessl
I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two,… — Tom Robbins
Would there be trees if we didn't see them? — Virginia Woolf
He stood up, put the tree back under the grow light. 'There. That's what's going to happen to us. It's called grafting. Taking something from… — Joan Bauer
What is a human being, then?' A seed' A... seed?' An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree. — David Zindell
The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years… — Jodi Picoult
The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark… — Susan Cooper
She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister… — Kate Chopin
There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously… — Nikki Sixx

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