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Alice Oswald has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.
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There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice…
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At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden.…
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I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without…
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I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your…
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One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar…
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I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.
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A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates…
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A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood…
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When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices…
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Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds,…
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Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination…
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It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to…
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Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.
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Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like…
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This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the…
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...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not…
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In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the…
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In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.
— Dean Koontz
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and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
— Hunter S. Thompson
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And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees…
— Mervyn Peake
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like…
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