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Tree Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus…
- In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled…
- ...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here…
- A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the…
- In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could…
- Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter…
- I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent…
More Tree Quotes
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree… — Frederick Lenz
- A Bird Sitting On The Branch Of A Tree Doesnt Get Frightened By The Shaking Branch, Because The Bird Trusts Not The… — Ritu Ghatourey
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- The gods made the earth for all men t' share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they… — George R. R. Martin
- On the afternoon of October 19, 1899, I climbed a tall cherry tree and, armed with a saw which I still have,… — Dr Robert H Goddard
- The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila