Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2389 authors
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The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead…
— Jennifer Egan
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I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the…
— Julia Cameron
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He was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed…
— James M. Barrie
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‎Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer.
— John Flanagan
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Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk…
— Heinrich Heine
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him...
— Abraham Verghese
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The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed.…
— Lauren Oliver
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Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost as…
— Maggie O'Farrell
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there;
— William Butler Yeats
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They rode out together from the shadows of the trees, leaving the Bala Hissar and the glowing torch of the burning Residency behind them, and…
— M.M. Kaye
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For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.
— Neil Gaiman
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I knew he wouldn't come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of him to me of what…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it…
— Jack Kerouac
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I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long,…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and…
— Wendell Berry
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Lina said to Fundevogel: 'Never leave me, and I will never leave you.' Fundevogel said: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Then said Lina: 'Do you become…
— Jacob Grimm
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Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.
— C.S. Lewis
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I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen,…
— Octavio Paz
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