Tree Quotes

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And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out… — Douglas Coupland
You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where… — Terry Pratchett
I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with skin like velvet… — Carolyn Parkhurst
Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest." And the boy did. And the tree was happy. — Shel Silverstein
Then the two friends leaned back and watched the sun rise clear of the trees. â€œBest time of day,â€ said Will. Yes,â€ Horace agreed. â€œWhatâ€™s… — John Flanagan
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though… — John Muir
they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked… — Toni Morrison
You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didnâ€™t you? (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own… — Mary Oliver
I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit… — Audrey Niffenegger
Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If… — Jenny Downham
High high in the hills , high in a pine tree bed. She's tracing the wind with that old hand, counting the clouds with that… — Ken Kesey
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty fingers into an… — Frank O'Hara
Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read. — Saadi
here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the… — E E Cummings
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my… — Annie Dillard
Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of… — Holly Black
A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness. A friend is… — Henri Nouwen
We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimatesâ€™ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements… — Anna Godbersen

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