Tree Quotes

4223 quotes by 2389 authors

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree. — Audrey Hepburn
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cars don't cause pollution, trees do. — Ronald Reagan
I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting… — Colin Firth
Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass,… — Kirk Douglas
We are like trees. We wear all colors naturally. — Claude McKay
I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top. — Jonathan Swift
He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at… — William Gaddis
The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee… — Robert Louis Stevenson
It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them, are more likely… — Sebastian Barry
A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I… — Sylvia Plath
I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known. — Henry David Thoreau
Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky. — Carl Sagan
Trees in winter lose their leaves. Some trees may even fall during storms, but most stand patiently and bear their fortune. — Ming-Dao Deng
The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God. — Meister Eckhart
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. — Anna Freud
Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree — India.Arie
The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large… — Confucius
Your fingertips across my skin, the palm trees swaying in the wind - images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, the sweetest sadness in your eyes… — A Fine Frenzy
Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it. — Robert Ballard

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