Tree Quotes

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Everything in the world has a hidden meaning. . . . Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics. When you see them you do… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Too bad you can't just grab a tree by the very tip-top and bend it clear over the ground and then let her fly, because… — Jack Handey
From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits. — Wes Fesler
Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than… — Edward Dowden
Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity. — Susan Fenimore Cooper
And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their… — Kathleen Raine
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors? — Bertolt Brecht
In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground. — James Boswell
This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. — William Wordsworth
John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark. — Tim Fulford
I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers. — Friedrich Holderlin
When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring… — Jean Giono
Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me. — Robert Frost
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear.… — William Butler Yeats
Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident… — William Carlos Williams
Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the… — Pablo Neruda
As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree. — Jonathan Weiner
Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. — George Pope Morris
And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick… — Hart Crane
The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung,… — Al Gore

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