Trees Quotes

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'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd. — William Shakespeare
I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by… — Henry David Thoreau
What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of… — Alan Watts
Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden… — Henry Van Dyke
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse. Our record indicates… — Joseph Sittler
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is… — Thomas Merton
Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy. — Bob Ross
Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him. — Henry Ward Beecher
A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after… — Learned Hand
...Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze... — James Russell Lowell
Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies? — Yip Harburg
As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees,… — Leo Buscaglia
It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money… — Isaac D'Israeli
My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrows… — Toni Morrison
The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the… — William Blake
The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do you hear the snow against the windowpanes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all… — Lewis Carroll
L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like… — Ian Shoales
Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as… — Walter Lippmann
Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains… — Virginia Woolf
My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me. — William Kamkwamba

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