Tree Quotes

4223 Tree quotes by 2276 unique authors

In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the birds,… — Tom Turner
The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was… — Victor Hugo
What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees — Robin Williams
Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits. — Eleanor of Aquitaine
It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of… — Dan Quisenberry
The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's… — James Hervey
Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence,… — Charles Dickens
Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky. — John Gould Fletcher
'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. — David Foster Wallace
What do you think? Who are these people who have depicted heaven as a playboy Club - who are these people? Starved, poor, who have… — Rajneesh
All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything. — Neem Karoli Baba
If only people were trees… I might like them better. — Georgia O'Keeffe
The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees. — Orson Scott Card
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. — Alexander Pope
When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun. — Chinua Achebe
Simpson, Homer Simpson/ He's the greatest guy in history/ From the/ Town of Springfield/ He's about to hit a chestnut tree. — Homer
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is… — Leonardo da Vinci
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all… — Jane Jacobs
Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in… — Ann Patchett
When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout,… — Akira Kurosawa
What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths, and every one… — Christiaan Huygens

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