Tree Quotes

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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree. — William Butler Yeats
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that. — Henry Ward Beecher
Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the… — Kate Douglas Wiggin
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis… — Marcel Proust
For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen… — Charles Dickens
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. — Willa Cather
Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the original… — Dave Barry
'I don't need very much now,' said the boy, 'just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.' 'Well,' said the tree,… — Shel Silverstein
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every… — Ludwig van Beethoven
If you've seen one redwood tree, you've seen them all — Ronald Reagan
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant… — William Ralph Inge
One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul. — Henry David Thoreau
How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers. — Edwin Way Teale
Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the… — Walt Whitman
I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk… — Heinrich Heine
I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax. — Boris Yeltsin

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