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Quotes About Tree

And all amid them stood the Tree of Life,   High eminent, blooming Ambrosial Fruit   Of vegetable Gold; and next to Life   Our Death the Tree of Knowledge grew fast by,   Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.
~ John Milton
Out of the fertile ground he caused to grow All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste; And all amid them stood the Tree of Life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit [220] Of vegetable gold; and next to life Our death the Tree of Knowledge
~ John Milton
His blessed count'nance; here I could frequent, With worship, place by place where he voutsaf'd Presence Divine, and to my Sons relate; On this Mount he appeerd, under this Tree Stood visible, among these Pines his voice I heard, here with him at this Fountain talk'd: So
~ John Milton
Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit   Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast   Brought Death into the World, and all our woe
~ John Milton
Of man's first disobedience and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world and all our woe
~ John Milton
The earth is our origin and destination. The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us; it is within: the clay from where the tree of the body grows.
~ John O'Donohue
the "axe is to be laid to the root of the tree," — the deeds of the flesh are to be mortified in their causes, from whence they spring.
~ John Owen
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates—died of malnutrition—because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.
~ John Steinbeck
When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.
~ George Horace Lorimer
Life is a tree with different branches of experience, different leaves of stories, different flowers of feelings, different roots of teachings of gaining and losing and different seeds of new beginning.
~ Unknown
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.
~ William Blake
Tanis blinked with disbelief, then he heard a sound behind him that nearly made him leap into a tree in panic. He whirled around, heart in his throat, sword in his hand. Raistlin was laughing.
~ Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman
The power of the visible is the invisible; as even where no tree of freedom grows, so-called brute courage knows.
~ Marianne Moore
I stand above the tree level I am a tree I catch wind storm breaths My branches claw I drink sky It stretches me I don't care I catch jokes and luck from tall thin blue air
~ Marie Ponsot
For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree
~ Thomas Paine
Christmas: The only time of the year in which one can sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of socks.
~ Unknown
As the post said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
~ Woody Allen
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
~ Larry Wilde
The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree.
~ Unknown
Every time you use an expression of the form object.attr where object is an instance or class object, Python searches the namespace tree from bottom to top, beginning with object, looking for the first attr it can find.
~ Unknown
Inheritance-tree climbing happens only on attribute reference, not on attribute assignment.
~ Unknown
Despite its syntax details, Python's class system really is largely just a matter of searching for an attribute in a tree of objects, along with a special first argument for functions.
~ Unknown
It's a Christmas miracle. I had no tree. Now I have a forest.
~ Richelle Mead, Succubus Dreams
Have you ever chopped down something with an ax? Not fun. I now have serious doubts regarding George Washington and his cherry tree.
~ Tammy Blackwell, Fate Succumbs