Tree Quotes

4223 Tree quotes by 2276 unique authors

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the… — Barbara Kingsolver
A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown… — Arthur Golden
Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds.… — Kurt Vonnegut
God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah! — Joseph Campbell
Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees. — Orson Scott Card
O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas. — J.R.R. Tolkien
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to… — Wendell Berry
We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to… — Jostein Gaarder
The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being… — Rumi
Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still. — Rumiko Takahashi
Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to… — Isabel Allende
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel… — Francis Spufford
Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken… — William Carlos Williams
The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved… — Jack Kerouac
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies… — Kathi Appelt
Root of a tree, fruit of a vine, let me pass by this blood of mine. — Christopher Paolini
Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in… — D. H. Lawrence
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces… — Sara Teasdale
Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees,… — Henry David Thoreau
In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could… — Barbara Kingsolver
The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it. — Ha Jin
Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned. — Robert Graves

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