Tree Quotes
4223 Tree quotes by 2276 unique authors
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Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele…
— James Thurber
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Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is…
— Jack Gilbert
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People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the…
— Alice Hoffman
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Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the…
— Ernest Hemingway
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If I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned, why in…
— Stephen Crane
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The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing…
— John O'Donohue
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She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted…
— Markus Zusak
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When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
— Edna O'Brien
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I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.
— Tamora Pierce
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I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.
— Robin McKinley
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Well! I had the most fantastic dream! Trees crying blood. Horrible dead elves going around and killing people! Raistlin wearing black robes! It was the…
— Margaret Weis
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There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a…
— Virginia Woolf
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Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end;…
— Ayn Rand
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Hy gododin catann hue Hud a lledrith mal wyddan Gaunce ae bellawn wen cabri Varigal don Fincayra Dravia, dravia Fincayra (Talking trees and walking stones,…
— T.A. Barron
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It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
— John Bunyan
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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…
— Mary Oliver
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that…
— Albert Einstein
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Girls are like apples...the best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they…
— Pete Wentz
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I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take…
— Khaled Hosseini
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At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand.…
— C.S. Lewis
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I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant…
— Jeannette Walls
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There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't…
— Annie Dillard
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There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise…
— Obert Skye
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