Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2389 authors
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A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots.
— Ray Wilkins
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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of…
— Victor Hugo
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There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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Because you see when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there…
— James M. Barrie
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The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft…
— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
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I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the American psyche. There…
— Maya Angelou
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Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent…
— Jonah Goldberg
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Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book…
— Sherman Alexie
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If a man loses one-third of his skin he dies; if a tree loses one-third of its bark, it too dies. If the Earth is…
— Richard St. Barbe Baker
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Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility.
— Richard St. Barbe Baker
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You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.
— Richard St. Barbe Baker
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Nobody hopped into a wardrobe to find Narnia; they hopped in, thinking it was just a wardrobe. They didn't climb up the Faraway Tree, knowing…
— Holly Smale
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That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs.…
— Pema Chodron
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The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom,…
— Edward Abbey
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The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay,…
— Frank Zappa
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I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can…
— May Sarton
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You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
— Publilius Syrus
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Love…
— Thomas Jefferson
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You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.
— Lance Armstrong
Who Wrote These Tree Quotes
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