Trees Quotes
2099 quotes by 1407 authors
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or…
— Diane Ackerman
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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 hang around and…
— David Bailey
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What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but…
— Russell Baker
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly…
— Douglas Adams
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Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've…
— Gerry Adams
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Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
— Dave Barry
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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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…
— Wendell Berry
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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it's a healthy outlet…
— Lewis Black
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
— Orlando Bloom
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
— Hal Borland
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
— Hal Borland
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I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I…
— Gisele Bundchen
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Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.
— Steve Buscemi
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When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and…
— Steve Buscemi
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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by…
— Christopher Alexander
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A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
— Chanakya
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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked…
— Chanakya
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