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Tree Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in…
- Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.
- If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and the nights are…
- O trees of life, O when are you wintering?We are not unified. We have no instinctslike those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,we force ourselves,…
- 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…
- Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you…
- If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.
- But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or…
- Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And everything…
- Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree…
- Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth…
- Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms…
- My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree;…
- If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle,…
- In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting,…
More Tree Quotes
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to… — Diane Ackerman
- I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to… — David Bailey
- What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to… — Russell Baker
- The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I… — Douglas Adams
- Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead… — Gerry Adams
- Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. — Dave Barry
- What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the… — Edward Abbey
- California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it,… — Drew Barrymore