Tree Quotes

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The wood nymph instructors left me in the dust. They told me not to worry about it. They'd had centuries of practice running away from… — Rick Riordan
Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo." Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree, didn't you? Glad you're back. I hate… — Rick Riordan
I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching palm trees sway… — Karen Marie Moning
All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement,… — Peter S. Beagle
Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree,… — Patrick Rothfuss
Just Me, Just Me Sweet Marie, she loves just me (She also loves Maurice McGhee). No she don't, she loves just me (She also loves… — Shel Silverstein
Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act… — Ezra Pound
If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we… — Loren Eiseley
Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she… — Jonathan Safran Foer
He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility… — Meg Rosoff
We were supposed to grow old together, Dolores. Have kids. Take walks under old trees. I wanted to watch the lines etch themselves into your… — Dennis Lehane
Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why canâ€™t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late eveningâ€”where the light is green from… — Katherine Mansfield
When you kill a beast, say to him in your heart: ~By the same power that slays you, I too am slain, and I too… — Khalil Gibran
Oh no, hon we were too late. Tiger-boy done pissed down the wrong honey tree and got all the bees, or in this case, bears,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending… — Janet Frame
Thalia had been turned into a pine tree when she was 12. Me... well, i was doing my best not to follow her example. I… — Rick Riordan
If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks… — Jaggi Vasudev
I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from… — Dorothy Parker
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree — William Blake

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