Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2276 authors
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A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself…
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently.…
— Donald Miller
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We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will…
— Arthur Golden
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Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds tight like the…
— Walter Mosley
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Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They…
— Leslie Marmon Silko
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine,…
— Aldo Leopold
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Unfortunately, the headlights of the car were bright enough for them to see Mae's outfit quite clearly. "Oh my God," said Nick, and shut his…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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The Americans take a product that literally grows on trees and turn it into a valuable commodity. Without them, cocaine and marijuana would be like…
— Don Winslow
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Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind…
— Meg Cabot
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Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.
— Sylvia Plath
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My featherbed is deep and soft, and there I’ll lay you down, I’ll dress you all in yellow silk and on your head a crown.…
— George R. R. Martin
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Do you say that tree isn't pretty cause it doesn't look like that tree? We're all trees. You're a tree. I'm a tree. You've got…
— Eve Ensler
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I planted a seed of hatred in my heart. I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would strangle them all.
— Ruta Sepetys
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September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace. So…
— Louis MacNeice
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... everything seemed to him a uniform shade of gray- even the people! He had been unable to believe it could rain so much in…
— Cassandra Clare
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The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It…
— Enid Blyton
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I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And…
— Mohsin Hamid
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Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars… and if you have eyes you will be able…
— Rajneesh
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The sky was a cold iron-grey, like the underside of a shield. A sharp breeze lifted the hems of skirts and rattled the leaves on…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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