Trees Quotes
2099 Trees quotes by 1322 unique authors
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By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few in…
— Stuart L. Pimm
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If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save…
— David Sobel
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Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to…
— Ernest Poole
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I think that anybody who's anti-selfie is really just a hater. Because, truthfully, why shouldn't people take pictures of themselves? When I'm on Instagram and…
— Ezra Koenig
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When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At the slightest breeze,…
— Alberto Villoldo
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It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe…
— Chanakya
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Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as…
— Robert Fortune
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The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to…
— Robert Fortune
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The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he…
— James McBride
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You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are…
— Richard de Bury
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Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open, you smell a…
— Frances O'Roark Dowell
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It was so dry in Saskatchewan during the Depression that the trees were chasing the dogs.
— John Robert Colombo
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...
— Hermann Hesse
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find…
— Majora Carter
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When I was asked to do something good, I often say yes, I'll try, yes, I'll do my best. And part of that is believing,…
— Maya Angelou
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Don't wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?
— Emo Philips
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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
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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
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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
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