Tree Quotes

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I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in… — James Lee Burke
He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far… — Patrick O'Brian
It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given. — Sheri Holman
An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then… — Nhat Hanh
and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly — Hunter S. Thompson
I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees. — J.R.R. Tolkien
I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in… — Silas House
Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle… — Stephen King
The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?'… — Thomas Hardy
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them. — Vladimir Nabokov
Burn, burn tree and fern! Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch To light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Bake and toast â€˜em, fry… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every… — Alan Watts
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating… — Haruki Murakami
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are. — Virginia Woolf
He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me… — Juliet Marillier
I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it,… — Alan Moore
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing… — Joyce Kilmer
I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other lessons in this… — Audrey Niffenegger
Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as… — John Keats

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