Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2389 authors
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If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would see them on…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had…
— Victor Hugo
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My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.
— Teresa Heinz
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I stayed under the moon too long.I am silvered with lust.Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes.My voice is trees tossing in the wind.I loose…
— Marge Piercy
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Amory Lovins says the primary design criteria he uses is the question How do we love all the children? Not just our children, not just…
— Starhawk
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She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears;…
— Virginia Woolf
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This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the sun rises tipping…
— Alice Munro
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The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it…
— Enid Blyton
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...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands…
— Truman Capote
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O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light.…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My heart is beating…
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
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In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they…
— Sandra Steingraber
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My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers…
— William Saroyan
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Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.
— Anthony Burgess
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I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move…
— Richard Preston
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When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You…
— Nhat Hanh
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I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.
— Peter Weir
Who Wrote These Tree Quotes
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