Tree Quotes

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The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but… — Dan Kieran
With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small… — Andrew Wyeth
Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them. — Reinaldo Arenas
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations. — Lucy Stone
Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall… — Ray Bradbury
Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit… — Lucy Larcom
Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do… — Ray Bradbury
It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but… — Flora Thompson
On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels… — Charles Dickens
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees. — Bill Vaughan
Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to… — Paul of the Cross
With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus… — Barbara Kingsolver
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of… — Thornton Wilder
When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become extraordinary. Nothing is… — Rajneesh
The desire for total happiness and for ultimate freedom lies dormant in everyone. It is in the form of a seed. It is like a… — Rajneesh
Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from… — Rabindranath Tagore
Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken. — Laozi
The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours a day and… — Erma Bombeck
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. — Georges Rouault

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