Tree Quotes

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Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own… — Martin Fleischmann
To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions.… — Ted Simon
If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so… — Don Young
L'arbre de la libertÃ© croÃ®t lorsqu'il est arrosÃ© du sang de toute espÃ¨ce de tyrans (The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the… — Bertrand Barere
Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest. — Chen Shui-bian
When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth.… — George Nakashima
Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound traditional around the… — Mike Harding
Over the course of the millennia, all these ancestors in your tree, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in time-to give birth… — Laurence Overmire
I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the objective… — Giorgio Morandi
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history… — Gerald Brenan
Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing. — Fay Wray
I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang. — William Butler Yeats
In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I've always had a passion for the outdoors, for trees,… — Audrey Hepburn
The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers… — Christopher Columbus
Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies,… — John Milton
We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth. — Elizabeth Kim
Make each day truly new, dressing it with the blessings of heaven, bathing it in wisdom and love and putting yourself under the protection of… — Paulo Coelho
The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something… — Mircea Eliade
A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot. — Laozi
The rigid tree will be felled. — Laozi

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