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Tree Quotes by Mary Oliver
- Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more the prettiness.
- Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree... Of course I have to give up, but by then I'm…
- The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something…
- Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
- Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really…
- I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness…
- A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own…
- I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept…
- Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it until…
- I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in…
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
- 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
- What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to… — Russell Baker
- A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy… — Saint Basil