Tree Quotes
4223 Tree quotes by 2276 unique authors
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It was one of those winter days that suddenly dream of spring, when the sky is blue and soft and clear, and the wind has…
— Shirley Jackson
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The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo…
— Isak Dinesen
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The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again…
— Luis de Camoes
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If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars,…
— Odysseas Elytis
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Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live…
— Bokar Rinpoche
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Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the…
— Walt Whitman
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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My love came back to me Under the November tree Shelterless and dim. He put his hand upon my shoulder, He did not think me…
— Francis Cornford
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Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first…
— Charles Lamb
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk,…
— Zhuangzi
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Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand…
— Scott Cunningham
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It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial . .…
— Paul Gallico
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I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife's body in…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars in what we…
— Yvon Chouinard
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Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course,…
— Heinrich Heine
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The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often…
— Stephen Covey
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Christmas is more than trees and twinkling lights, more than toys and gifts and baubles of a hundred varieties. It is love. It is the…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold…
— Wallace Stevens
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A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around…
— David Suzuki
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Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he made it all…
— Julia Cameron
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In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.
— Alexander Kotov
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I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur.
— Jack Handey
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Many people never stop to realize that a tree is a living thing, not that different from a tall, leafy dog that has roots and…
— Jack Handey
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Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong,…
— Morihei Ueshiba
Who Wrote These Tree Quotes
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