Tree Quotes

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Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves. — Frank O'Hara
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots… — Amelia Earhart
It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became… — Virginia Woolf
Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back. — Terry Pratchett
She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from… — Katherine Howe
Like a tree losing its leaves. I forget even the thing I was thinking. — Jenny Downham
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost… — George Orwell
And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears-… — Mervyn Peake
I fell asleep that night thinking about the kiss that might have been. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldnâ€™t… — Wendelin Van Draanen
Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love which underwent its worst confict there. Yes,… — Jim Elliot
Variations: II Green light, from the moon, Pours over the dark blue trees, Green light from the autumn moon Pours on the grass ... Green… — Conrad Aiken
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came… — Oscar Wilde
At last Niko dropped his hands, and opened his eyes. His perfect tree illusion solidified and settled. "Very nice," said Briar with approval. "Couldn't have… — Tamora Pierce
But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow… — Willa Cather
Then he kissed her, not just a brush of lips as she'd done, but a kiss a kiss that scalded her tongue. The tree burst… — Melissa Marr
I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench… — Jean-Paul Sartre
I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and… — Sue Monk Kidd
The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach… — Hermann Hesse

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