Trees Quotes

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And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals. — Billie Letts
Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come. — Karen Joy Fowler
The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts. — Lisa Ann Sandell
In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees — Philip Roth
[Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp.… — Laurell K. Hamilton
We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for… — Marcel Proust
The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night. — E. M. Forster
Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where… — Melina Marchetta
Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy… — May Sarton
..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things… — Zora Neale Hurston
Yes, he is here in this open field, in sunlight, among the few young trees set out to modify the bare facts-- he's here, but… — Denise Levertov
If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly… — Audre Lorde
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and… — Marisha Pessl
I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two,… — Tom Robbins
Would there be trees if we didn't see them? — Virginia Woolf
The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark… — Susan Cooper
February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring.… — Boris Pasternak
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the… — Barack Obama
The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart… — John Muir
But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And everything… — Rainer Maria Rilke
She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that… — Neil Gaiman
If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears. — Mahmoud Darwish

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