Trees Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““The trees' bony fingers make spell-casting gestures in the wind as they pass.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Trees
“Some of the trees hung their branches down almost as far as the surface, as if they were trying to stroke it with long… — Sophie Cleverly Copy Share Image
“If I wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should not be able to do so. But the wind, which we do… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.” — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“You told me trees could speak and the only reason one heard silence in the forest was that they had all been born knowing… — Carol Goodman Copy Share Image
“Trees quiver in the wind, sailing on a sea of mist out of earshot.” — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
“Some of my kin look just like trees now, and need something great to rouse them; and they speak only in whispers. But some… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The trees were like black skeletons reaching to the sky, pleading with their bony arms for the sun to get stronger.” — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“... or in the forest; mingling various walks with the splash and murmur of the waves, and the solemn wind-anthem among the tree-tops.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Your brain is a forest, And the nerves are trees. When the branches touch, Snaps jumps between the leaves.” — Rich Shapero Copy Share Image
“Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Storms come to teach trees and plants how to dance in the wind.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I loved the game so much that even though our playing field was muddy and we had many trees on it, I used to… — Roberto Clemente Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
“Sitting at the old patio table she’d cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs of the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Nevermore Tree was gargantuan, a word which here means 'having attained an inordinate amount of botanical volume.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their quest for… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The problem with drinking and driving is that trees defend themselves very well. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I liked climbing trees and could often be found up one reading a book. I played games with Dad and drew maps for him… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
