Trees Quotes
2099 Trees quotes by 1322 unique authors
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Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the…
— Auguste Rodin
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In [man's] mouth is ever the bittersweet taste of life and death, unknown to the trees. Without respite he is dragged by the two wild…
— Hope Mirrlees
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Nothing can grow under big trees.
— Constantin Brancusi
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In water and on land, in trees, shrubs, and creepers-everywhere in the whole universe abides my Beloved. Further, all the various forms and modes of…
— Anandamayi Ma
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He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out…
— Gary McCord
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'You know Bobby, when I was your age I'd drive the ball right over those trees at the corner.' Feeling challenged Mr. Cole hit a…
— Sam Snead
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Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of…
— Stephen Shore
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It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear…
— Thomas Malory
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On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think, and act in…
— F. David Peat
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A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh…
— Wilfred Owen
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have
— Gavin Newsom
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I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants…
— Keri Hulme
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And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made the…
— Jack Spicer
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Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up…
— Vine Deloria, Jr.
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Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.
— Josh Ritter
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The bluebells made such a pool that the earth had become like water, and all the trees and bushes seemed to have grown out of…
— Graham Joyce
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That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in the…
— Kent Haruf
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The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The winds and the…
— Rudolfo Anaya
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Mike Forsberg's images give us bright openings onto a world. . . . Here on the Great Plains both people and trees and everything else…
— Ted Kooser
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My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul taught me, I…
— Khalil Gibran
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To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a…
— Orhan Pamuk
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Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.
— Garth Nix
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All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make…
— Charles Ives
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As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.
— Henri Michaux
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