Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2421 authors
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Once you plant seeds of success, your tree will bear fierce fruit.
— Tyra Banks
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A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.
— Stephen Crane
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See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.
— Richard Sibbes
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Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted…
— Denise Levertov
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It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. I’m absolutely not interested in that. It made sense…
— Kay Ryan
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As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in fish. I do…
— Paul Watson
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I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a…
— Natalie Merchant
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Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal…
— David Almond
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Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture,…
— Jim Jarmusch
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When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers…
— Helen Keller
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Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you…
— Wangari Maathai
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Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu carried a staff…
— Wangari Maathai
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We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a…
— Moshe Dayan
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Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of…
— Moshe Dayan
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Children will draw pictures with everything in them...houses and trees and people and animals...and the sun AND the moon. Grown-up says, "That's a nice picture,…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted…
— Wallace Stevens
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My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ."
— Wallace Stevens
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Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of…
— E. Cobham Brewer
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The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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