Tree Quotes

4223 Tree quotes by 2276 unique authors

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at… — Allen Ginsberg
Who's this—alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and I— It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone and grass and… — Siegfried Sassoon
The tree that never had to fight for sun and sky and air and light but stood out in the open plain and always got… — Douglas Malloch
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey. — William Blake
If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?" All have their worth," said… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas. — Kate Horsley
I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories… — Saul Williams
I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway,… — Truman Capote
and if i if i ever let love go because the hatred and the whisperings become a phantom dictate i o- bey in lieu of… — June Jordan
For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling.… — Franz Kafka
He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! — Zora Neale Hurston
I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau… — Sylvia Plath
Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups.… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any… — Arthur Golden
I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of… — Charles de Lint
...she fell into a long sleep, and dreamed he dreams of the dream tree. — Stephen Cosgrove
Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday… — Ronald Reagan
Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ... "Not this again." "Not what again?" said Clary. "Every time I annoy him, he retreats into… — Cassandra Clare
I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning. — Orhan Pamuk
So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run… — Annie Dillard
A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could… — Hermann Hesse
In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen is that you… — Daniel Handler
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one… — Mahatma Gandhi

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