Tree Quotes

4223 quotes by 2276 authors

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience. — Pat Conroy
Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before… — Margaret Mitchell
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. â€˜What, grandfather!â€™ I exclaimed.… — Nikos Kazantzakis
All it takes,â€ said Crake, â€œis the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the… — Margaret Atwood
Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight. — Jacqueline Carey
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a… — Alfred Noyes
There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon… — Susanna Clarke
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchardâ€¦And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover… — Charlotte Bronte
The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. "I think she listens," she said, too softly… — Alice Sebold
All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us… — Margaret Fuller
I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top. — Ray Bradbury
I think what you notice most when you havenâ€™t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories. — Mitch Albom
Do you really have any idea how important you are to me? Any concept at all of how much I love you?" He pulled me… — Stephenie Meyer
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isnâ€™t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords.… — Eckhart Tolle
It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills. — Sherwood Anderson
In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are… — Garth Stein
Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do… — Orson Scott Card
It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. — John Muir

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