Dead trees Quote by Cyril Connolly Download Open image “Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.” — Cyril Connolly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dead trees Dear Epitaph Green Green leaves Green trees Reader Tree Trees
The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all. — T.A. Barron Copy Share Image
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Trees were made of vibrant green leaves sitting on the shoulders of shy green leaves too embarrassed to show themselves.” — Kevin James Moore Copy Share Image
To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Like leaves on a tree we must wither away but we take comfort in the green ones which comes today.” — Shemar Stephens Copy Share Image
“The wind fights in the treetops; the leaves move in a hundred dialects of green...” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“I have seen trees that survive fire. Their bark is burned and their limbs are dead branches. But hidden under that skeleton is a… — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
“I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must always have been, being unfolded without fault from… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In the fall, trees are beautiful. I wonder how such beauty is followed by death. How do leaves change to such amazing colors, but… — Rasha Riad Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
As I look back on my fondness for the outdoors, and specifically the elements in nature that I find visually stimulating, I am surprised… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is… — William Booth Copy Share Image
I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a different system… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
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… — James McBride Copy Share Image
A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image