Trees Quotes

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In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities… — Victor Hugo
A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made… — Robin Hobb
The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause;… — Virginia Woolf
Caddy smelled like trees. — William Faulkner
And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in… — Carl Sagan
One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked so… — Shel Silverstein
My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard… — Anna Sewell
Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity. — Thomas Jefferson
A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad… — J. Patrick Lewis
i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people — Marge Piercy
If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred… — Confucius
I will be your friend,' I said. 'I will go home to my mother's house the way I did when I skinned my knees as… — Consuelo de Saint-ExupÃ©ry
remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in… — Hilda Doolittle
Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched… — Miranda July
People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything. — Nhat Hanh
If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want… — Anais Nin
Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is… — Jack Gilbert
People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the… — Alice Hoffman
Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the… — Ernest Hemingway
If I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned, why in… — Stephen Crane
The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing… — John O'Donohue
She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted… — Markus Zusak
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. — Edna O'Brien

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