Tree Quotes

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When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned… — George Raveling
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down. — Jack Handey
My feet are like gnarled old tree branches. — Dennis Rodman
Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who… — Mary Ritter Beard
There is a sense in the tree which feels your love and responds to it. It does not respond or show its pleasure in our… — Prentice Mulford
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not… — E. O. Wilson
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. — William Manchester
Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees.… — Raymond Chandler
she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned… — Lewis Carroll
Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You'… — Woody Allen
A Christmas tree--the perfect gift for a guy. The plant is already dead. — Jay Leno
Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves. — Euripides
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. — Fred Allen
The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird… — D. H. Lawrence
God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from… — William Gurnall
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his… — Robert Aris Willmott
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every… — Henry David Thoreau
One should think in terms of whether one is loving or not. The question of the object of love does not arise. With your wife,… — Rajneesh
Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert to the wind… — Rajneesh
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots… — Seneca the Younger

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