Tree Quotes

4223 quotes by 2389 authors

L.A. kills people.' Jacaranda said. 'You're lucky you're leaving. You'll be able to write.' She looked paler, going through another depression, smoking in bed in… — Francesca Lia Block
It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to… — Annie Dillard
Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind… — Edwin Way Teale
A print book is really a kind of tree zombie. — Scott Sigler
Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into… — Scott Westerfeld
I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent… — Barbara Kingsolver
And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer, she said, laughing,… — Nancy Garden
You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky," Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away… — Kathryn Lasky
Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the… — Douglas Adams
Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't… — Ray Bradbury
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on… — Margaret Atwood
Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there… — Oscar Wilde
There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six feet away and… — Jodi Picoult
She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean. — George R. R. Martin
When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen… — Stephen King
The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees. — Scott Heim
And the boy loved the tree.......very much. And the tree was happy. — Shel Silverstein
I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept… — Mary Oliver
Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,â€™ Holly advised him. â€˜That was Docâ€™s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a… — Truman Capote
A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. — George R. R. Martin

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