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Quotes About Tree

The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.
~ George Eliot
Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
~ Henri Matisse
In talking of evolution, it is common to have in mind a tree.
~ Russell Stannard
This is the blood's wild tree that grows the intricate and folded rose
~ Judith Wright
Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
~ Aaron Hill
Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.
~ Samuel Rutherford
Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo." Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree, didn't you? Glad you're back. I hate it when pretty girls turn into trees. Man, I remember one time—
~ Rick Riordan
In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
~ Robert Henri
Our mother Eve, who tasted of the tree, Giving to Adam what she held most dear, Was simply good, and had no power to see.
~ Emilia Lanier
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
~ Simone Weil
We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.
~ William Cowper
Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.
~ Elizabeth Prentiss
Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit appear at the same time, full of refreshment for sense and for soul.
~ Lucy Larcom
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
~ Henry Miller
A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.
~ Jane Hirshfield
MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor
~ Johnny Weissmuller
Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.
~ Eckhart Tolle
We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The Lord is in everything that's in creation. So, when you look at a tree, it's really a reflection of God. You see it in other people - that's him too, you know?
~ George Harrison
The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
~ Nick Harkaway
Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.
~ William Blake