Trees Quotes
2099 Trees quotes by 1322 unique authors
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Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to…
— Paul of the Cross
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With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of…
— Thornton Wilder
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When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become extraordinary. Nothing is…
— Rajneesh
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The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours a day and…
— Erma Bombeck
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This / is the use of trampolines / I will remember, the broken sunlight / Coming through the trees in a strange / Land, and…
— Unknown Author
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Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to…
— Adam Zagajewski
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When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft…
— Laozi
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Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants…
— Larry Gates
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As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.
— Homer
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Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five clusters,…
— Dogen
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There was a man that hated his footprints and his shadow, so one day he thought that if he ran fast enough, his footprints and…
— Benjamin Hoff
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It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources…
— Peter Senge
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My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to…
— Jim Fowler
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I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
— Henry David Thoreau
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It was one of those winter days that suddenly dream of spring, when the sky is blue and soft and clear, and the wind has…
— Shirley Jackson
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The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo…
— Isak Dinesen
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If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars,…
— Odysseas Elytis
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Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the…
— Walt Whitman
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand…
— Scott Cunningham
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It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial . .…
— Paul Gallico
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So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife's body in…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars in what we…
— Yvon Chouinard
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Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course,…
— Heinrich Heine
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