Tree Quotes

4223 Tree quotes by 2276 unique authors

In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes. — Dean Koontz
The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid's cabin looked like an iced cake. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere,… — Freeman Dyson
She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Spring: trees flying up to their birds — Paul Celan
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and… — Maya Angelou
The night you gave me my birthday party... you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a… — Zelda Fitzgerald
I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than… — Sara Teasdale
It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that… — Jeffrey Eugenides
To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from… — Dag Hammarskjold
An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking… — Nicholas Sparks
I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. — Khalil Gibran
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part… — Betty Smith
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later… — John Knowles
That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual… — L. Frank Baum
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You… — Louise Erdrich
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith… — Wendell Berry
Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches. — Lionel Shriver
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree… — Willa Cather
It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that man—as he had long suspected—was… — Rafael Sabatini
What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from… — Radclyffe Hall
She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a… — Nicole Krauss
Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red… — Dave Eggers
I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed. — Nikos Kazantzakis

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