Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2421 authors
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Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom…
— William Butler Yeats
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We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.
— Mark Twain
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My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to…
— Jim Fowler
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I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
— Henry David Thoreau
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It was one of those winter days that suddenly dream of spring, when the sky is blue and soft and clear, and the wind has…
— Shirley Jackson
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The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo…
— Isak Dinesen
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The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again…
— Luis de Camoes
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If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars,…
— Odysseas Elytis
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Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live…
— Bokar Rinpoche
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Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the…
— Walt Whitman
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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My love came back to me Under the November tree Shelterless and dim. He put his hand upon my shoulder, He did not think me…
— Francis Cornford
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Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first…
— Charles Lamb
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk,…
— Zhuangzi
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Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand…
— Scott Cunningham
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It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial . .…
— Paul Gallico
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I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife's body in…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars in what we…
— Yvon Chouinard
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