Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2421 authors
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What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?
— Richard Louv
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Now, my tree-climbing days long behind me, I often think about the lasting value of those early, deliciously idle days. I have come to appreciate…
— Richard Louv
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Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in the…
— Richard Louv
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May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.
— John Henry Jowett
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I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase,…
— Faith Baldwin
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The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a…
— Isak Dinesen
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Whosoever plants a tree / Winks at immortality,
— Felix Dennis
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And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who…
— Donald Miller
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I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits. To the birds,…
— Ajahn Chah
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The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread…
— Thomas Chalmers
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I stand above the tree level I am a tree I catch wind storm breaths My branches claw I drink sky It stretches me I…
— Marie Ponsot
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America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America…
— Carlos Bulosan
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The Raven's house is built with reeds, — Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds, High on the…
— Thomas D
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Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than…
— Kamila Shamsie
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Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom…
— Chester Himes
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You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central…
— Mary McCarthy
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The evocative power of the drum can be compared to the Trinity. The drum's frame comes from the trunk of a tree, and that tree…
— Babatunde Olatunji
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Oh sure, I have a few black people in my family tree. They're probably still hanging there.
— Zach Braff
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I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts…
— May Sarton
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As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices, forming an intricate…
— Gerald Durrell
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