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Tree Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines…
- Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
- We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts,…
- We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty,…
- Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
- Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual…
- Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and…
- Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
- The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations…
- 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,…
- Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round…
- 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…
- A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.
- A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.
- As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.
- The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
- The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.
- As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous…
- The cordial quality of pear or plum rises as gladly in the single tree as in whole orchards resonant with bees
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- Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree… — Frederick Lenz
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
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- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- 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
- What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to… — Russell Baker
- A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy… — Saint Basil
- There are qualities which grow as meditation deepens. For example, you start feeling loving for no reason at all. Not the love… — Rajneesh