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Quotes About Tree

wherever the apple tree goes, its offspring propose so many different variations on what it means to be an apple -- at least five per apple, several thousand per tree -- that a couple of these novelties are almost bound to have whatever qualities it takes to prosper in the tree's adopted home.
~ Michael Pollan
Sahaja Yoga is like a tree which requires love as the water.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed tree, but if not, that tree is but dried-up wood, and shall only feed the fire
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.
~ Gabourey Sidibe
remembered to use the hand brakes I hit a tree and took an awful spill.
~ Beverly Cleary
Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.
~ Bill Bryson
Miraculously, Pitka survived. "I don't know why I set that durn gun against the tree," he said later. (Actually, what he said was, "Mrffff mmmpg nnnmmm mffffffn," on account of having no lips, teeth, nose, tongue, or other vocal apparatus.)
~ Bill Bryson
My favourite tree was the Weeping Scholar Tree. I thought it must come from Japan. They understood things of the spirit in Japan. They disemboweled themselves when anything went wrong.
~ Sylvia Plath
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind's singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star.
~ T. S. Eliot
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.
~ T.S. Eliot
He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom - a broom that would have fired the imagination of Rachel the Dragon toward heroic, legendary feats of sweeping.
~ Tad Williams
One of our favorite spring rituals is to buy packs of white goose feathers at a craft store, climb our bird-watching tower, and stand, feathers in our outstretched fingers, until tree swallows gather the courage to hover close, snatch them, and bear them off to their nest.
~ Julie Zickefoose
in an ideal world, you'd be able to pick beef puddings from a beef pudding tree.
~ K.J. Parker
A bee may be born in a hole in a tree, but she likes the honey of the lotus.
~ K?lid?sa
To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.
~ Kahlil Gibran
I'll go to Santiago. And the banana tree a jellyfish.
~ Frederico Garcia Lorca
How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
~ Brad Warner
You are an impudent young man." "And you live with a tree stump
~ Brandon Mull
But still, my 'freedom' is that of a leaf. Dropped from the tree, I just blow on the wind and pretend I'm in charge of my destiny.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Your friendship has been like the refreshing shade of a vast tree in the noonday heat.
~ Brennan Manning
We might climb a tree, at least.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit--not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Vous m'avez tout donné, le bonheur et la souffrance. Vous avez été mêlée à toutes mes choses de cet été, comme de la pluie mêlée aux branches d'un arbre. Vous avez désenchanté pour moi la solitude. A peine si j'y peux croire encore.
~ Henry de Montherlant
The purpose of that apple tree is to grow a little new wood each year. That is what I plan to do.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow