Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2421 authors
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I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I…
— David Walker
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Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The…
— Danny Hillis
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A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were…
— Linda Hogan
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Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint wonders…
— R. Scott Bakker
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One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge…
— Daniel Tammet
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A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
— Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in it-stones…
— Joel Meyerowitz
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I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you’re being sucked down…
— Florence Welch
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I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting…
— Florence Welch
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Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.
— Matthieu Ricard
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Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a…
— Frances Mayes
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Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another…
— Shirley Ann Grau
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For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another…
— Andy Goldsworthy
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Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
— Lynn Margulis
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I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're going, Where do…
— Carolyn Chute
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I kinda flirt with everything and everyone, no matter if it's a tree or a coffee cup. I can't resist.
— Mika
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I can see how weird I was. One day I decided the school needed a Christmas tree and spent hours dragging this huge beast of…
— Mika
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The highest point of Christian experience is to press forward. It is a distinguishing trait in the character of every good man that he grows…
— Gardiner Spring
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I used to wonder why God used a prop like the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to inflict guilt on Adam&Eve, until I…
— Jon Rappoport
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The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of the snowshoe trail, the beckoning…
— Grey Owl
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