Tree Quotes

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Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment.… — C.S. Lewis
When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to… — Robert Frost
Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never… — John Owen
February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring.… — Boris Pasternak
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the… — Barack Obama
The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart… — John Muir
But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And everything… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree… — Rainer Maria Rilke
What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the… — Peter S. Beagle
Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with blossomfoam, like a… — Tony Hoagland
She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that… — Neil Gaiman
If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears. — Mahmoud Darwish
Very slowly, she peeked around the tree trunk. Saw a slim, petite figure, flanked by two very large, very dangerous-looking soldier of fortune types picking… — Cindy Gerard
What I said yesterday didn't mean anything! I love everyone in the flock! Plus, it was the Valium talking!" "Uh-huh. You just keep telling yourself… — James Patterson
Chilled-looking people walking along the riverside, the snow beginning, faintly, to pile up on the roofs of cars, the bare trees shaking their heads left… — Banana Yoshimoto
Your chances of getting hit by lighting go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms suck!! — Johnny Carson
This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the… — Jose Saramago
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination. — Charles Baudelaire

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