Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2276 authors
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She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, maybe I didn't. There was a house,…
— Mark Strand
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The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise,…
— William Shakespeare
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what…
— Carson McCullers
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And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your…
— Khalil Gibran
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Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new…
— George Eliot
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That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the…
— Orson Scott Card
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You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.
— Rachel Caine
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If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Much-Afraid, don't ever allow yourself to begin trying to picture what it will be like. Believe me, when you get to the place which you…
— Hannah Hurnard
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Truthfully, he lives right next to the Sexy Tree and I think that's the only thing that bothers me about this whole situation.
— J.A. Redmerski
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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
— Willa Cather
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When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look…
— Hermann Hesse
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...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do:…
— Ray Bradbury
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A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday…
— Joanne Harris
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bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the…
— Kami Garcia
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How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave…
— Swami Vivekananda
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In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting,…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.
— David Mitchell
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You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I don’t believe it.…
— Nancy Farmer
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The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is…
— Philip Larkin
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