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Quotes About Tree

Mercy imagined Freya as part of the earth itself, so every flower and tree, even every blade of grass symbolized her goddess.
~ P.C. Cast
Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth like if it had been made by our lips like a kiss which falls from our invincible heights to show the fire and the tenderness of a true love.
~ Pablo Neruda
Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks, using a ring with no stone in it, with no finger in it, comes and shouts with no mouth, with no tongue,with no throat. Nevertheless its steps can be heard and its clothing makes a hushed sound, like a tree.
~ Pablo Neruda
Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?
~ Pablo Neruda
Here is the solitude from which you are absent. It is raining. The sea wind is hunting stray gulls. The water walks barefoot in the wet streets. From that tree the leaves complain as though they were sick. White bee, even when you are gone, you live in my soul. You live again in time, slender and silent. Ah, you who are silent.
~ Pablo Neruda
How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?
~ Pablo Neruda
Settle your perfect hips here and the bow of wet arrows loosens into the night the petals that form your form let your clay limbs climb the silence and its pale ladder rung by rung taking off with me in my dream. I can sense you scaling the shade tree that sings to the shadows. Dark is the world's night without you my love
~ Pablo Neruda
you, my friend, could be the smoke's daughter, you who may not have known you were born of fire and rage, lightning over flaming lava etched your violet mouth, your sex in the scorched oak's moss like a ring in a nest, your fingers there in the flames, your compact body rose from leaves of fire that make me recall there were bakers in your family tree, you're still the rainforest's bread, ash from violent wheat
~ Pablo Neruda
The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.
~ Pat Conroy
However, it is not the immediacy of such experiences that tells us that it is the Spirit of God in Christ by whom we are being formed. Rather, the proof, if not the comfort, lies in the person we become and the deeds that flow from us. The tree is known by its fruit.
~ Dallas Willard
Yggdrasill—one of only five of its kind—into a war
~ Dan Simmons
I shot at a great bird which I saw sitting upon a tree on the side of a great wood.
~ Daniel Defoe
He stayed up with the eye all night, staring into its shiny blueness, seeing himself within it, until the sun, rising above the tree line the next morning, seemed to him to be the shining eye of some forgotten god. T
~ Daniel Wallace
Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
~ Albert Schweitzer
A window opening on nothing but the blank sky was endlessly attractive to me…. A window that looked out into a tree was a source of inexpressible happiness…
~ Wendell Berry
time as a sense of before and after, or a measurement of motion, is of course subjective, and highly relative; but a tree will age, wither and decay whether or not the lapse of time is measured or perceived.
~ Will Durant
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
~ William Blake
The Hurricane The tree lay down on the garage roof and stretched, You have your heaven, it said, go to it.
~ William Carlos Williams
He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as rank presumption.
~ William Gaddis
He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as 'rank presumption.
~ William Gaddis
They (wise people) speak of the indestructible ASHWATTHA tree* as having its roots above and branches below, whose leaves are the
~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.
~ Chris Pratt
tree. How she feels enslaved of herself, then exposed suddenly, to the plummeting temperature. Weather's self-indulgent caprice chills her body.
~ Chris Roberts
Thanatos, der alles wusste, stieg in Erwartung des Kommenden die Niederenslinger Hügel hinauf zum Plateau, suchte einen Baumstrunk, setzte sich und wartete. Er trug einen schwarzen Aktenkoffer bei sich, der alle Geduld der Welt enthielt.
~ Helmut Krausser