Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2421 authors
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The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.
— George T. Delacorte, Jr.
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It is something that is just there, and it is huge, and everything has been built around it, and wherever one happens to be going…
— Mike Mason
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Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.
— Alan Watts
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A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.
— Mike Lowry
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There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.
— Jaime Lerner
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I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now says, "Dad, I…
— Bill Cosby
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The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?
— Neil S. Plakcy
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The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad,…
— Charles Kingsley
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I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial…
— Thomas Browne
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Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache…
— Louis L'Amour
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And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed…
— Toni Morrison
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When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her…
— William C. Bryant
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You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God,…
— William Jay Gaynor
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Since the age of six, I have had a passion for drawing things. Now that I am 75 years, I have finally learned something of…
— Hokusai
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Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by…
— Marie Corelli
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Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one…
— Jose Saramago
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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful…
— Warren Buffett
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Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love.
— Colette Inez
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Brother woke just after midnight and he didn't make a sound, and as he climbed from out of bed with severed rings around his head,…
— Radical Face
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