Tree Quotes
4223 Tree quotes by 2276 unique authors
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The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay,…
— Frank Zappa
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I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can…
— May Sarton
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You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
— Publilius Syrus
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Love…
— Thomas Jefferson
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You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.
— Lance Armstrong
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The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.
— Audrey Hepburn
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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Cars don't cause pollution, trees do.
— Ronald Reagan
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I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting…
— Colin Firth
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Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass,…
— Kirk Douglas
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We are like trees. We wear all colors naturally.
— Claude McKay
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I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
— Jonathan Swift
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He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at…
— William Gaddis
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The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them, are more likely…
— Sebastian Barry
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A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I…
— Sylvia Plath
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I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.
— Carl Sagan
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Trees in winter lose their leaves. Some trees may even fall during storms, but most stand patiently and bear their fortune.
— Ming-Dao Deng
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The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.
— Meister Eckhart
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We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
— Anna Freud
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Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree
— India.Arie
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The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large…
— Confucius
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Your fingertips across my skin, the palm trees swaying in the wind - images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, the sweetest sadness in your eyes…
— A Fine Frenzy
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Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it.
— Robert Ballard
Who Wrote These Tree Quotes
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