Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2389 authors
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She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.
— Diane Duane
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I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain, To drink into my eyes the shine Of every slanting silver line,…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.
— Sue Townsend
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Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be satisfied. I was…
— Hermann Hesse
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It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the…
— Melina Marchetta
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Jack believed in something—he believed in white witches and sleighs pulled by wolves, and in the world the trees obscured. He believed that there were…
— Anne Ursu
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Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing…
— Paullina Simons
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And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and…
— Thomas Wolfe
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The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its…
— Suzanne Collins
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She wasn't mine. She hadn't been mine for a long time. She shouldn't be here and I shouldn't have asked. So instead of reassuring her,…
— Abbi Glines
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She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and…
— A. S. Byatt
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Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people…
— Wangari Maathai
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it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right…
— Frank O'Hara
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O God, when I listen to the voices of animals, the sounds of trees, the murmurings of water, the singing of birds, the whistling of…
— Paulo Coelho
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I felt the exact same way.But if it helps,you look much cuter freaking out than I ever did." I peeked out through my hands."But what…
— Kiersten White
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I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own…
— David Abram
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That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish…
— Suzanne Collins
Who Wrote These Tree Quotes
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