Tree Quotes

4223 Tree quotes by 2276 unique authors

The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The… — William Faulkner
Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the… — Gautama Buddha
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. — John Dryden
And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men.… — Joseph Rodman Drake
The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and… — William Cowper
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree,… — William Cowper
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze. — William Cowper
No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar. — William Cowper
We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree. — William Cowper
O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so… — Robert Southey
And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But… — Robert Southey
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really… — Mary Oliver
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have always been very interested in landscape... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest - tree trunks, the growth… — Henry Moore
The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play. — Heinrich Heine
Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you,… — Sara Teasdale
The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God. — Anne Sexton
What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a… — Stephen Fry
I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but… — Henri Matisse
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found… — Henri Matisse
There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces. — Georgia O'Keeffe
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if,… — John Ruskin
If you don't like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn't enough, change it. If something doesn't suit you, change it.… — Jim Rohn

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