Tree Quotes

4223 quotes by 2276 authors

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden! — Brad Warner
Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.… — Paul Verlaine
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance… — Carl Sagan
She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree… — Robin McKinley
Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the… — Robin McKinley
a tree is never just a tree, it is bigger and deeper and wiser than a girl like you will ever be. — Juliet Marillier
Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body… — Lois Lowry
The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed,… — Madeleine L'Engle
A short distance away is the Tidal Basin, ringed by cherry trees that every year produce flowers, an event to which Washingtonians react as though… — Dave Barry
Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it." -Fang — James Patterson
it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine — Lucy Maud Montgomery
... I am more of an ambler. I once overheard my old boss in Dublin describe me as very "hello trees, hello flowers." It was… — Marian Keyes
Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being bored out of… — Kim Addonizio
May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in… — Arundhati Roy
Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you… — Robert Green Ingersoll
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended. — Jose Saramago
As Harry and Ron rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a witch leapt out from behind them.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black… — Amy Tan
Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit. — Amy Tan
Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must… — Brian Jacques

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