Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2389 authors
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There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising from the plain.…
— Juan Rulfo
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Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange…
— Derrick Jensen
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We got him to talk to a psych doctor once, the doctor asked if he heard things other people don't. Sure, Paul answered, I hear…
— Nick Flynn
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("Let's stand under a tree," she said. "Why?" "Because it's nicer." "Maybe you should sit on a chair, and I'll stand above you, like they…
— Nicole Krauss
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I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the…
— Carl Sandburg
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When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the…
— David Sedaris
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The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I…
— H.G. Wells
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They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left.…
— Kathleen Winsor
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Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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As the three of them walked home from the trees, nobody needed to say it, but Ama knew. They had questioned their friendship. They had…
— Ann Brashares
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As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of its winds. I…
— Wendell Berry
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When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and…
— Alice Hoffman
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Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it,…
— Nora Roberts
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My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead…
— Douglas Adams
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Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that…
— Cormac McCarthy
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There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see…
— Victor Hugo
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The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and all the trees,…
— Orson Scott Card
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Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown…
— Frank O'Hara
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Time for bed.†I held my fist out. One by one, my flock stacked theirs on top, and then we headed up into the trees…
— James Patterson
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If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be,…
— Viggo Mortensen
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