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“I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.”

“CROWN Too much rain loosens trees. In the hills giant oaks fall upon their knees. You can touch parts you have no right to— places only birds should fly to.”

Should Fall Too Much Tree Bird Rain Hills Knees Giants Crowns Oaks

Book:Say Uncle: Poems

Source: Say Uncle: Poems

“After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.”

Hard Age Night Cutting Tree Wind Mountain Rain Feathers Rain At Night

Author:W. S. Merwin

“There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon the earth with such potential for magic. Even the least of them may fly straight out of this world and come by chance to the Other Lands. Where does the wind come from that blows upon your face, that fans the pages of your book? Where the harum-scarum magic of small wild creatures meets the magic of Man, where the language of the wind and the rain and the trees can be understood, there we will find the Raven King.”

Men World May Doe Book Earth Faces Language Chance Magic Tree Fans Land This World Wind Kings Creatures Pages Bird Understood Rain Casts Blow Your Face Void Ravens Wild Creatures

Author:Susanna Clarke

“All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement, you in flight and I in my tree. But there is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized. A life without food, without shelter, without love, a life lived in the rain—this is nothing beside a life without poetry.”

Ifs Firsts Said Two Purpose Tree Elements Rain Flight Shelter Requirements Without Love Squirrels Ravens

Author:Peter S. Beagle

“And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.”

Moments Film Left Sound Morning Growing Tree Rain Forgotten Intense Replaced Left Out Small Moments Growing Tree

Author:Douglas Coupland

“A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them ... A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. . .”

Knows World Law House Tree Dog Rain Smell

Book:Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If thats true, I want to be buried right here under this tree. Its roots will reach into the soft mess of my body and suck me dry. I'll be re-formed as apple blossom. I'll drift down in the spring like confetti and cling to my family's shoes. They'll carry me in their pockets to help them sleep. What dreams will they have then?”

Ifs Want Humans Made Helping Dream Body Dies Stars Sleep Tree Return Spring Rain Roots My Family Shoes Nuclear Dust Mess Apples Dry Pockets Buried Ashes Glitter Confetti

Author:Jenny Downham

“I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless.”

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.”

Body Speak Language Forever Tree Changed Mouths Rain Skins Sticks Shakes Rebirth Petals

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. -Songs of Sapphique”

Thinking Knows Men Eye Lying Song Voice Doors Tree Wall Rain Ears Snow Beast You Think You Know Walls Have Ears

Author:Catherine Fisher

“Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who hears the regrets of the thieving automobile? Is there anything in the world sadder than a train standing in the rain?”

World Tree Regret Rain Standing Roots Dresses Train Rose Naked Automobile Splendor Standing In The Rain

Book:The book of questions

Source: The book of questions

“When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafey trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough. And I shall be more silent and cold hearted Than you are now”

Should Care Tree Hair Broken Cold Rain Suicide Silent Peaceful Shakes Suicidal Last Words April Hearted Broken Hearted Suicide Note Cold Hearted

Book:Rivers to the Sea

Source: Rivers to the Sea

“When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity.”

Thinking Wells Past Beautiful White Tree Baby Grew Taste Rain Appreciate Rivers Jazz Definitions Warm Smell Brown Infinity Beautiful Things Rushing Squirrels Swollen Muzzle Chipmunks

Author:David Sedaris

“You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance.”

Earth Growing Up Growing Tree Streets Expression Months Rain Army Remains Silent Sorry Branches Someday Rainbow

Book:Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems of Jim Carroll

Source: Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems of Jim Carroll

“Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees?”

Should Remember Fall Tree Rain Apples Apple Trees Rain Falling

Book:The treasury of Du Maurier short stories

Source: The treasury of Du Maurier short stories

“Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm body. In whatever room Your warm body. Among all the people Your absence The people who are always Not you. I have been easy with trees Too long. Too familiar with mountains. Joy has been a habit. Now Suddenly This rain.”

People Long Has Beens Body Joy Easy Rooms Gone Tree Streets Cold Habit Terrible Mountain Rain Defeat Warm Absence Familiar Gray Yellow Amber Your Absence

Author:Jack Gilbert

“Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.”

“"Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behind,” David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it."”

“Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmere who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be the one! If they live forever, why not me?”

“She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.”

Should Nature Sun Tree Rain Clean Fruit Clouds Hills Fruit Trees Somewhere Under

Book:A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“In the dark that followed - Lucy said; "where I was born, the trees were always in the sun. And I left that place because it was intolerant of rain. Now, we are here in a place where there are no trees and there is only rain. And I intend to leave this place - because it is intolerant of light. Somewhere - there must be somewhere where darkness and light are reconciled. So I am starting a rumour, here and now, of yet another world. I don't know when it will present itself - I don't know where it will be. But - as with all those other worlds now past when it is ready, I intend to go there.”

Knows World Said Light Past Left Born Dark Darkness Sun Tree Ready Rain Starting Here And Now Light And Darkness Other Worlds Another World Lucy Rumours

Author:Timothy Findley

“I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.”

“I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain, To drink into my eyes the shine Of every slanting silver line, To catch the freshened, fragrant breeze From drenched and dripping apple-trees. For soon the shower will be done, And then the broad face of the sun Will laugh above the rain-soaked earth Until the world with answering mirth Shakes joyously, and each round drop Rolls twinkling, from its grass-blade top.”

World Done Eye Earth Faces Lines Laughing Sun Alive Tree Drink Kissing Rain Shining Fingers Rounds Grass Apples Shakes Silver Broads Showers Breeze Blades Mirth Dripping Twinkling Apple Trees

Book:Early Poems

Source: Early Poems

“Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be satisfied. I was so long in the outer brightness, I am not used to this upheaval: Being at home in my own soul, Never to be led elsewhere. I want nothing, I long for nothing, I hum gently the sounds of childhood, And I reach home astounded In the warm beauty of dreams. Heart, how torn you are, How blessed to plow down blindly, To think nothing, to know nothing, Only to breathe, only to feel.”

“The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.”

Home Dies Community Too Much Tree Rain Roots Weak Sick Let Me Tired Realization Knees Trunks Peacekeepers Tree Trunks

Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy

“... everything seemed to him a uniform shade of gray- even the people! He had been unable to believe it could rain so much in one place, and so unceasingly. The damp had seemed to come up from the floors and into his bones, so that he'd thought he would eventually sprout mold, in the manner of a tree. "You do get used to it," he said "Even if sometimes you feel as if you out to be able to be wrung out like a washrag." p 311”

People Ifs Feels Believe Said Sometimes Able Used Tree Rain Come Up Bones Gray Shade Uniforms Mold Damp Sprouts

Author:Cassandra Clare

“And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.”

Ifs Knows Looks Children Hands Space Tree Flower Arms Walking Rain Clouds Your Children Rising Lightning Knowing God Riddle Descending

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“The roofs are shining from the rain, The sparrows twitter as they fly, And with a windy April grace The little clouds go by. Yet the back yards are bare and brown With only one unchanging tree- I could not be so sure of Spring Save that it sings in me.”

Littles Grace Tree Spring Rain Shining Clouds Brown Roof Yards April Springtime Sparrows Unchanging Windy

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.”

Doe Names Water Tree Sky Talent Fine Genius Rain Rivers Mirrors Owners Silver Scenery Creeks Engraved

Author:Edgar Lee Masters

“When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain Like holy water falls upon the plain, 'Tis sweet to gaze upon the springing grain And see your harvest born. And sweet the little breeze of melody The blackbord puffs upon the budding tree, While the wild poppy lights upon the lea And blazes 'mid the corn.”

Littles Light Fall Water Born Tree Sweet Holy Spring Rain Clouds Shakes Melody Grain Harvest Breeze Corn April Springtime Puff Poppies Holy Water

Book:The Complete Poems

Source: The Complete Poems

“Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.”

Together Hell Tree Kissing Rain Thunder Kiss Me Eyelashes

Book:A Book of Lives

Source: A Book of Lives

“Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.”

“To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.”

Long War Country Whole Night Fall Poverty Tree Wind Bed Creatures Rain Hearing Wander Warmth Shelter Rejected Weary Hollow Up And Down Barns Sleepers

Book:Barnaby Rudge: And, Hard Times

Source: Barnaby Rudge: And, Hard Times

“The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.”

World Spiritual Spirit Religion Spirituality Water Tree Rain Garden Rivers Environmental Unconscious Rivers And Water Water Fountain

Book:The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks

Source: The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks

“Tis rushing now adown the spout, And gushing out below, Half frantic in its joyousness, And wild in eager flow. The earth is dried and parched with heat, And it hath long'd to be Released from out the selfish cloud, To cool the thirsty tree.”

Long Earth Water Half Tree Rain Flow Rivers Clouds Selfish Heat Rushing Thirsty Frantic

Author:Elizabeth Oakes Smith

“The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. What is happening to the rain forests of Madagascar and Brazil will affect us all.”

Knows Humans Science Knowledge Tree Economic Development Happenings Bird Rain Economics Forests Biology Links Ecology Ants Brazil Human Development Madagascar

Author:E. O. Wilson

“A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. ... Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree.”

Way Character Use Earth Humanity Secret Accepting Sun Tree Rain Flow Roots Reaching Reach Out Nurture Sinking

Book:Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

Source: Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

“Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.”

Death Water Beauty Gone Tree Dying Tomorrow Mountain Reflection Rain Appreciate Rivers Appreciation Pity Streams Shed Floats Impermanence

Author:Cheng Man-ch'ing

“The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a midday rain, or scented with pinon pine. The air is precious to the red man, for all things are the same breath - the animals, the trees, the man.”

Men Faces Sound Animal Air Tree He Man Wind Red Rain All Things Breaths Smell Indian Native Native American Ponds

Author:Chief Seattle

“There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.”

Dream Body Remember Language Memories Inspiring Tree Wind Rain Stones Forgotten Wave Deeper Snow Symbols Gestures

Book:A Language Older Than Words

Source: A Language Older Than Words

“God, make me brave for life: oh, braver than this. Let me straighten after pain, As a tree straightens after the rain, Shining and lovely again. God, make me brave for life; much braver than this. As the blown grass lifts, let me rise From sorrow with quiet eyes, Knowing Thy way is wise. God, make me brave, life brings Such blinding things. Help me to keep my sight; Help me to see aright That out of dark comes light.”

Way Helping Light Eye Pain Dark Darkness Knowing Wise Tree Sorrow Quiet Rain Let Me Sight Bravery Shining Brave Lovely Lifts Grass Help Me After The Rain

Author:Grace Noll Crowell

“At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity”

Firsts Humanity Fighting Realizing Environment Tree Rain Environmental Forests Conservation Jungle Amazon Rubber Environmentalist Deforestation Rainforest Amazon Rainforest

Author:Chico Mendes

“Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.”

Tree Spring Rain Spring Rain

Author:Matsuo Basho

“Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds - the invisible shared out in endless abundance.”

Light Morning Tree Bears Rain Winter Clouds Endless Invisible Judgement Abundance Diamond Pears Twigs Winter Morning

Author:Denise Levertov

“I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.”

Needs I Can Sex Tree Prove Rain Standing Appeals Apples Bedroom Sex Appeal Funny Sex Great Sex Sex Relationships Sex Love Standing In The Rain

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything.”

People Fall Tree Rain Plant Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.”

Ifs Desire Fall Grows Water Sleep Meditation Tree Flower Sorrow Findings Rain Filled Fruit Forests Grass Monkeys Finding Peace Vines Drop Of Water Lotuses Lotus Flower After The Rain

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things.”

People Way Tree Lows Rain Fruit Clouds Noble Generosity Gentle Generous Bows Gentle Rain

Author:Bhartrhari

“The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to the ocean it value multiplied a million fold.”

Humans Reality Earth Values Water Animal Millions Tree Return Ocean Rain Plant Etc Insects Folds Plant A Tree Rain Water

Author:Chanakya

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