Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2276 authors
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It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but…
— Richard Ford
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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
— Ann Brashares
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He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done…
— Matsuo Basho
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If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
— Michael Crichton
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Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers…
— Rajneesh
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I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of it. Oh, the…
— Lynn Austin
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It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought…
— James Thurber
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Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of…
— Cormac McCarthy
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And the tree was happy
— Shel Silverstein
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There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree…
— Betty Smith
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When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What vanity,' they screamed,…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark, joins us, and…
— Suzanne Collins
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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that…
— John Keats
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If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If…
— Henry Rollins
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CROWN Too much rain loosens trees. In the hills giant oaks fall upon their knees. You can touch parts you have no right to— places…
— Kay Ryan
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They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the…
— Chris Cleave
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
— Sylvia Plath
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I owned a Ferrari, a Range Rover, a Mercedes 560SL convertible, a Jeep Cherokee and a Nissan 300ZX. I can't remember the intricate decision tree…
— Michael J. Fox
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Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room…
— Haruki Murakami
Who Wrote These Tree Quotes
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