Trees Quotes

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Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground. — William James
In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not… — Gary Snyder
There are two great systems in the body of man: the tree of life, which is the arterial with its roots in the heart; and,… — Manly Hall
I do not expect anyone will ever have the opportunity of constructing another course like Cypress Point, as I do not suppose anywhere in the… — Alister MacKenzie
How can a guy climb trees, say 'Me, Tarzan, you, Jane,' and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was… — Johnny Weissmuller
When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and… — Agnes Martin
Don't wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs? — Emo Philips
Man has gone to the moon but he does not yet know how to make a flame tree or a bird song. Let us keep… — Felix Houphouet-Boigny
My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up in the morning-free,… — Harry Callahan
I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in… — Alice Oswald
Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship.… — Ruskin Bond
To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks. — Ruskin Bond
Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving. — Diane Frolov
Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to… — Norman Macbeth
My love and I are inventing a country, which we can already see taking shape, as if wheels were passing through yellow mud. But there… — Larry Levis
Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to… — Adrian Frutiger
Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic.… — Amy Gerstler
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees. — Laozi
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,… — Wendell Berry
Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good… — Jack Kornfield

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