Tree Quotes
4223 Tree quotes by 2276 unique authors
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in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.
— Markus Zusak
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You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or…
— Walt Whitman
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The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths,…
— E. M. Forster
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The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and…
— Virginia Woolf
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Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the…
— C.D. Wright
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You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing…
— Anton Chekhov
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There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at…
— Sara Teasdale
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The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And…
— Robert Frost
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Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of the last of…
— Dr. Seuss
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The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of…
— Arthur Golden
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If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me…
— Charles M. Schulz
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They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think…
— Rudyard Kipling
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This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.
— Neil Young
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We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too…
— Henri Matisse
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Imagine, a Being with a mind as great as God's, with feet like trees and a voice like rushing wind, telling you that you are…
— Donald Miller
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The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get…
— Cormac McCarthy
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I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a…
— Ray Bradbury
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You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that…
— Philip Pullman
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My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she…
— Mitch Albom
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The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen…
— David Clement-Davies
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The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. -…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing…
— Dean Young
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