Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2276 authors
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I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the…
— Wilson Rawls
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December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall, sad…
— Siegfried Sassoon
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People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves…
— James A. Baldwin
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I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under…
— Ray Bradbury
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I'll fall.' 'You wont fall.' 'I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.' As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on…
— Kamila Shamsie
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Bluestar blinked. "There are cats who would argue that there should never have been a fifth Clan in the forest at all. Why are there…
— Erin Hunter
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The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.
— Flannery O'Connor
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Fireheart tensed, waiting for whatever had hunted down these apprentices to emerge from the trees and attack, but nothing stirred. Feeling as if his legs…
— Erin Hunter
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The cats at the edge of the clearing were staring up at the sky, their eyes huge with fear. As he looked upward, Fireheart heard…
— Erin Hunter
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Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love…
— William Butler Yeats
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very…
— Albert Camus
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Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.’ (Talon)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense.…
— John Fowles
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Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.
— Khalil Gibran
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Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a…
— Saint Augustine
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A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it…
— Elizabeth Moon
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Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything…
— E E Cummings
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...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree,…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Who Wrote These Tree Quotes
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