Tree Quotes

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

I love to work, so give me what you've got. I'll play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work.

Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.

I'm Davey. I sing, make faces and swing from trees.

Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees.

And remember, even when you can't sing, you can always plant a tree

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.

The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he's peeing on a tree...Mr. David Lynch, a prodigious coffee drinker, apparently pees hard and often.

Final installment of Things More Fun Than Reading the Sarah Palin Memoir: Driving into a tree, microwaving your head, and getting stabbed in the eye with a carrot.

You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try

Nature is good for all of us. When we're exposed to trees and other natural settings - even within the city, it fosters creativity.

A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.

You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.

It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.

Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don't want to forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -

I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as all life on earth, back to the first stirrings in the primal ocean.

She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science.

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

If trees could speak they wouldn't

Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.

Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

I started finding hearts in things - whether it was like, a tree I was passing, a straw wrapper on the ground, I think the heart has one continuous line, which is very powerful.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before

I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.

The development of a tree depends on where it is planted.

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

"You wanna deliver papers in a big city?" an expert with a bent nose told me, "then you gotta shake the trees to find the gorillas to do it..."

The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.

Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

Maybe you're not doing it right""I wasn't aware there was a technique to tree hugging.

A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek - Nor near enough - to find

I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows--but also so, so removed.

In honor of Al Gore, green tea, not Tea Party, but Al Gore green tea. And by the way, it's tree hugger-approved.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

I made a wish on this tree years ago," Marco says. "What did you wish for?" Bailey asks. Marco leans forward and whispers in Bailey's ear. "I wished for her.

there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.

Whosoever plants a tree, Winks at immortality.

When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

My love came back to me Under the November tree Shelterless and dim. He put his hand upon my shoulder, He did not think me strange or older, Nor I, him.

To wonder where the mind goes after the brain decays is as silly as asking where the 70-miles-per-hour have gone after a speeding auto has crashed into a tree.