Trees Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image ““What are men compared to rocks and trees?”” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Trees
“The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the face of a man.” — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
“All men are not like trees. For some it is best to be moving where the spirit leads, like our cousin the wind.” — Idwal Jones Copy Share Image
“The trees had protected it from time and weather, and from men who have less pity than time and weather.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There's a special kind of man who plants a tree when he knows he'll move on before it's big enough for him to sit… — Sandra Dallas Copy Share Image
“Although men were strong like rocks, any stone could crack. Women were more like water. They nurtured life and could shape the hardest granite… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Men could be as big as a house and made of granite, but they all had balls in the same place.” — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
“society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never see’.” — James Kerr Copy Share Image
“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The trees are a thousand times taller than me, and hundreds of years older, and the rocks and leaves and plants and animals never… — Ben Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Nature might stand up And say to all the world, ‘This was a man!” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen 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