Tree Quotes

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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree,… — John Stuart Mill
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full… — D. Elton Trueblood
Everyone speaks of himself with regard to his ownself, "I am above and the others are below," whilst all of them are around the globe… — Varahamihira
Anger is a weed; hate is a tree — Saint Augustine
When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the… — Al Alvarez
If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and… — Wendell Berry
Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree. — Ed Coan
The golfer has more enemies than any other athlete. He has fourteen clubs in his bag, all of them different; 18 holoes to play, all… — Dan Jenkins
On the course, what is feared is like a magnet. Water, bunkers, trees, ravines, high grass - whatever you fear turns magnetic. — Wiffi Smith
The reason I don't play golf is because I was a caddie when I was 13. Women never gave up a golf ball that was… — Art Buchwald
I get pissed off. I simply do not understand someone who hits a ball that lands behind a tree and can look at it and… — Simon Hobday
The hardest shot in golf is a mashie at 90 yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against an oak tree,… — Zeppo Marx
Those trees seem to grow every year... — Peter Alliss
Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating… — Wayne Dyer
A tree that is unbending, is easily broken. — Laozi
The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the… — Aldo Leopold
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to… — Alexander Smith
Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall. — Adelaide Crapsey
old pear tree starlings announce harvest time — Phil Noble

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