Tree Quotes

4223 quotes by 2389 authors

Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses… — Elizabeth Goudge
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought for… — Natasha Trethewey
The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees. — Naomi Shihab Nye
O trees of life, O when are you wintering?We are not unified. We have no instinctslike those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,we force ourselves,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not… — George Saunders
In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the birds,… — Tom Turner
The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was… — Victor Hugo
What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees — Robin Williams
Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits. — Eleanor of Aquitaine
It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of… — Dan Quisenberry
The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's… — James Hervey
Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence,… — Charles Dickens
Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky. — John Gould Fletcher
'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. — David Foster Wallace
What do you think? Who are these people who have depicted heaven as a playboy Club - who are these people? Starved, poor, who have… — Rajneesh
All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything. — Neem Karoli Baba
If only people were treesâ€¦ I might like them better. — Georgia O'Keeffe

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