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Quotes About Tree

She was so close to the sea that when Maria licked her lips she tasted salt. There were different kinds of birds here, gulls and terns that wheeled through the pink-tinged sky. Soon the water she walked through was brackish, and all along the shore small crabs burrowed in the mud. Maria climbed a tree in which to safely rest for the evening, and from that high vantage point she could see blue in the distance, the miraculous sea.
~ Alice Hoffman
Where was her soul? Was it up above her in a tree, perched there like a goblin?
~ Alice Hoffman
He awoke before dawn to find the tree in full bloom, a bower of cream-colored stars on dark, leathery leaves. He heard it speak to him when he leaned his head against the gray trunk.
~ Alice Hoffman
THE TINY SPIDERS that lived in the higher branches of the downed tree (which now meant the branches that lay on the other side of the crushed fence that separated front yard from back) were bright red. At the end of the day, even the careful children had the marks of them, bloody starbursts on their palms. And the smell of the green wood, the tender leaves
~ Alice McDermott
LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Up behind the icehouse was the little house where Bill lived with his wife and two daughters, who looked as if they had fallen out of an ugly tree, hit every branch on the way down, then smacked the dirt solid. They was always smilin´ at me and such and it made me nervous.
~ joe r lansdale
Loretta started belting out a song: "Row, row, row your boat, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G !
~ Joel N. Ross
The croma word for school means 'tree'," said Kim'ju. "Some croma scholars think it comes from the parren thought of House Enquiry. Enquiry took over much of the croma education system, divided as it was back then, during the croma-parren union.
~ Joel Shepherd
Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.
~ Deepak Chopra
We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
~ Franz Kafka
Belonging to the world of poetry,but fascinated by another world, she is always stretching out from her enchanted tree and snatching bits from the flux of daily life as they float past, and out of these bits she builds novels.
~ E M Forster
It all seems so sad, so unbearably sad for a second, to think of the lovely old maple with the swing. We never told the tree how much we loved it. We never gave it a name, never did anything for it.
~ E. Lockhart
A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.
~ E. O. Wilson
It was English, and the wych-elm that she saw from the window was an English tree. No report had prepared her for its peculiar glory. It was neither warrior, nor lover, nor god; in none of these roles do the English excel. It was a comrade, bending over the house, strength and adventure in its roots, but in its utmost fingers tenderness, and the girth, that a dozen men could not have spanned, became in the end evanescent, till pale bud clusters seemed to float in the air.
~ E.M. Forster
Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
~ East African Proverb
in active directory domain lingo, a group of computers that shares a single namespace and DNS structure is called a domain. a group of domains linked in parent-child relationships (also like the roots of a tree) is called a tree.
~ Ed Tittel
Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla.
~ Eden Robinson
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,The Elfin from the green grass, and from meThe summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?
~ Edgar Allan Poe
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
~ Edna Ferber
Why do you follow me?- Any moment I can be Nothing but a laurel tree. Any moment of the chase I can leave you in my place A pink bough for your embrace. Yet if over hill and hollow Still it is your will to follow, I am off; - to heel, Apollo!
~ Edna St Vincent Millayy
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
~ Edward Abbey
Traverse: One of two ways to stop while skiing. Tree: The other method.
~ Anonymous
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.
~ Anonymous
Monkey in the tree,Lion on the ground.Monkey kept on signifyingBut he didn't come down.
~ Anonymous