Quotes About Tree

Marya watched from the upper floor as once again the birds gathered in the great oak tree, sniping and snapping for the last autumn nuts, stolen from squirrels and hidden in bark-cracks, which every winged creature knows are the most bitter of all nuts, like old sorrows sitting heavy on the tongue.

It is when we ask about the nature of this catharsis that we discover that culture itself represents something like the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Also India had taught me that change grows from the bottom, like a tree, and that caste or race can double or triple women's oppression.

the shadow on the tree bark moves and emerges in the shape of a gecko

Browsing the dim back corner Of a musty antique shop An old book of poetry fell open Gold-gilded dust filled the air Angels flew out from the pages I caught the whiff of a soul The ink seemed fresh as today Was that voices whispering? The tree of the paper still grows.

The bony elbows Of power-walking purists Punch the air like little pistons, A well greased paradise-pursuing machine... Nowadays the prophet of real estate has spoken. As our tree population reaches rock bottom Wooden roofing joists shine Like gold bars in the sun. Razor-wired peace-walls rise daily, Funny way to put it But we love each other really. Black as Edgar Poe's ink-stained soul...

No matter how breathless the air when he dug his nest by tree or bank, the wind that later blew inevitably found him to leeward, sheltered and snug

The strong, calm man is always loved and revered. He is like a shade-giving tree in a thirsty land, or a sheltering rock in a storm.

My novel's about Brooklyn. The tree? Or the kids or the murderers or the junkies? Vivaldo swallowed. All of them. That's quite an assignment. And if you don't mind my saying so, it sounds just a little bit old fashioned. He put his hand before his mouth and burped. Brooklyn's been done. And done.

All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.

When I think of Tao, I think of the artist Bob Ross and his famous painting techniques. I can hear him say, "It's your tree, you can make it look any way you want to.

A great sage is like a tree, he lives just to help others, just to make this world beautiful.

A tree's beauty lies in its branches, but its strength lies in its roots.

An apple only falls far from its tree when carried away by divine winds.

It is in the shade that you look up at a tree and appreciate its efforts.

Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you fruit tomorrow.

A relationship is like a tree.The deeper the roots are, the more it will grow.The deeper the friendship is, the more it will grow.

I like squirrels. They're so adventurous.

Time is an old firmly rooted tree; we are the breeze rustling its leaves.

Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree.

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

He who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many branches and few roots, which the first wind throws down; whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot.

Against this defect man was provided with a remedy in the tree of life; for its effect was to strengthen the force of the species against the weakness resulting from the admixture of extraneous nutriment.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.