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Tree Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music…
- One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
- 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…
- "Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel,…
- We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most…
- I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if…
- I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was…
- I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
- Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!
- I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as…
- Trees indeed have hearts.
- We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its…
- I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.
- The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
- Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.
- It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the…
- The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within…
- If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language…
- I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell…
- Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground,…
More Tree Quotes
- 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
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- 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
- When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause… — Al Alvarez
- Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to… — Rajneesh
- Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot