Tree Quotes
4223 Tree quotes by 2276 unique authors
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Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache…
— Louis L'Amour
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And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed…
— Toni Morrison
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When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her…
— William C. Bryant
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You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God,…
— Unknown Author
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Since the age of six, I have had a passion for drawing things. Now that I am 75 years, I have finally learned something of…
— Hokusai
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Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by…
— Marie Corelli
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Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one…
— Jose Saramago
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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful…
— Warren Buffett
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Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love.
— Unknown Author
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Brother woke just after midnight and he didn't make a sound, and as he climbed from out of bed with severed rings around his head,…
— Radical Face
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Everybody's bones are just holy branches cast from trees to cut patterns in the world. And in time we find some shelter, spill our leaves,…
— Radical Face
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A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the…
— John Steinbeck
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Many trees could be saved if the government stopped printing tax forms.
— Sam Ewing
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And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... Four dry logs…
— Pietro Aretino
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I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but…
— Edward John Trelawny
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If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you…
— Odysseas Elytis
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That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be renewed, and after…
— Brother Lawrence
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Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of…
— Pliny the Elder
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Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of the…
— Pliny the Elder
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it
— Dan Fogelberg
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By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few in…
— Stuart L. Pimm
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If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save…
— David Sobel
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Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to…
— Ernest Poole
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A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man.…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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I think that anybody who's anti-selfie is really just a hater. Because, truthfully, why shouldn't people take pictures of themselves? When I'm on Instagram and…
— Ezra Koenig
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