Tree Quotes

4223 quotes by 2276 authors

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too… — Gaston Bachelard
Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book.… — Ray Bradbury
When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us. — Alice Walker
Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper… — John Fante
He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he… — Nancy Farmer
The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close… — Shannon Hale
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree. — Leonard Cohen
It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next… — Markus Zusak
Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees... — Bob Dylan
The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts… — T.H. White
VIDEO ARCHIVE- INTERVIEW 24768 . GOLD-EYE I like treesâ€¦ grassâ€¦ only birds in sky. People walking safe. Family No Creatures. Sleep all night safe. Walk… — Garth Nix
Go and play. Run around. Build something. Break something. Climb a tree. Get dirty. Get in some trouble. Have some fun. — Unknown Author
At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to… — Rudyard Kipling
Again and Again, however, we know the language of love, and the little churchyard with its lamenting names and the staggeringly secret abyss in which… — Maggie Stiefvater
Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things." "But different things can often blend together,"… — Daniel Handler
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness. — Michael Pollan
My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out of His Path.'… — Patricia Briggs
I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. Itâ€™s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our… — Sheri S. Tepper
Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter… — Barbara Kingsolver

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