Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2389 authors
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You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all…
— Joni Mitchell
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And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.
— Khalil Gibran
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You cannot imprison me!" He bellowed. "I am Hyperion! I am-" The bark closed over his face. Grover took his pipes from his mouth. "You…
— Rick Riordan
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On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel. Very tall…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.
— Lois Lowry
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And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire? I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted…
— Diana Gabaldon
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I couldn't meet his gaze. I stared at the table just behind him--the mess of cards on it, the lantern giving off its quiet glow.…
— L.A. Weatherly
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All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless…
— E. Lockhart
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Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees?
— Daphne du Maurier
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I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the…
— Sylvia Plath
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And yet and yet - the last secret of the tree of codes is that nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion. Nowhere as much…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of…
— William Wordsworth
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Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view…
— Daniel Handler
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At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of a…
— Jennifer Egan
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You can't see the forest for the trees.
— Nicholas Sparks
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Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind…
— Christopher McDougall
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The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and…
— Terry Pratchett
Who Wrote These Tree Quotes
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