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Tree Quotes by Wendell Berry
- I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the…
- If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and…
- The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a…
- Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to…
- The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses…
- Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts,…
- But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way…
- 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…
- I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to…
- As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of its winds. I…
- This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and…
- A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation. 
More Tree Quotes
- Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree… — Frederick Lenz
- A Bird Sitting On The Branch Of A Tree Doesnt Get Frightened By The Shaking Branch, Because The Bird Trusts Not The… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- 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
- When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause… — Al Alvarez
- Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to… — Rajneesh
- Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot