Best Tree Trunks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.”

Hands Together White Break Tree Wave Weather Sand March Weed Fierce Trunks Foam Tree Trunks

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“All we have observed is where moths do not spend the day. In 25 years we have found only two betularia on the tree trunks or walls adjacent to our traps (one on an appropriate background and one not), and none elsewhere”

Years Two Found Tree Wall Backgrounds Appropriate Elsewhere Traps Trunks Moths Tree Trunks

Author:Cyril Clarke

“I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.”

Should Ideas Wonder Tree Sadness Cheerful Tree Trunks

Book:The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note Book of Roaul Dubois. [Also The Unknown River. An Etcher's Voyage of Discovery]

Source: The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note Book of Roaul Dubois. [Also The Unknown River. An Etcher's Voyage of Discovery]

“So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could have been written by that far off man who first saw a tree trunk roll and made a wheel and cart and harnessed in his mare and cracked his whip and drove away to disappear beyond the hill! Or that first man who made a boat and raised a sail and disappeared hull down to unknown shores!”

“Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!”

Tree Speed Holes Repeats Dull Trunks Beaks Tree Trunks Woodpeckers

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen... and you will hear the creaking.”

Two Moments Seems Might Lasts Break Forever Tree Appearance Storm Branches Empires Rotten Blast Trunks Tree Trunks

Book:Foundation Trilogy

Source: Foundation Trilogy

“To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I would rather not go on.”

Source: Life of Pi

“For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.”

Should Littles Done Enough Lying Tree Appearance Snow Rolling Trunks Tree Trunks

Book:The Complete Stories

Source: The Complete Stories

“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”

Unity Packs Basketball Teamwork Girdles Tree Trunks Creepers Packs Of Wolves Wolf Packs Jungle Book

Book:The Second Jungle Book

Source: The Second Jungle Book

“Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”

May Law Dies Leadership Break Tree Sky Packs Jungle Trunks Girdles Tree Trunks Creepers Packs Of Wolves Wolf Packs

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Very slowly, she peeked around the tree trunk. Saw a slim, petite figure, flanked by two very large, very dangerous-looking soldier of fortune types picking their way through the bodies and the rubble. "Amy?" Oh, God. It was Amy. "Get away from her," Jenna ordered, stepping out from behind the conifer, wielding the iron pan like a club. Both men stopped. Glanced at her. Glanced at each other over Amy's head. "What?" The biggest one grunted out a surly laugh. "Or you'll souffle us?" Okay. She was definitely going after him first.”

Men Way Firsts Two Body Behinds Laughing Saws Tree Dangerous Figures Type Okay Fortune Soldier Clubs Iron Get Away Amy Trunks Slim Rubble Petite Surly Tree Trunks Souffle

Author:Cindy Gerard

“The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.”

Firsts Winning Force Tree Sky Endure Seeds Stem Trunks Tree Of Life Timber Tree Trunks Dead Trees

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn’t good enough. She was seventeen, and every male she’d ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The one time it really mattered, she wasn’t good enough.”

Enough Company Known Tree Feet Tears Hot Silent Males Good Enough One Time Steady Noisy Blinded Seventeen Trunks Buttercup Tree Trunks

Book:The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

Source: The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

“I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.”

Reality Form Perfect Tree Ancient Beach Autumn Leafs Curves Transparency Texture Elusive Trunks Truth And Beauty Tree Trunks Ancient Trees

Author:Isabel Allende

“Something doesn't look right," Vee said. "Is the tire supposed to look like that?" I banged my head against the nearest tree trunk. "So we've got a flat," Vee said. "What now?”

Looks Said Tree Flats Tire Trunks Tree Trunks

Book:The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“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

“... He went under the stars, and the tender light of the moon, when it hung like an eyelash and the tree trunks shone like bones. He walked through wind and weather, and beneath sun-bleached skies. It seemed to Harold that he had been waiting all his life to walk. He no longer knew how far he had come, but only that he was going forward. The pale Cotswold stone became the red brick of Warwickshire, and the land flattened into middle England. Harold reached his hand to his mouth to brush away a fly, and felt a beard growing in thick tufts. Queenie would live. He knew it.”

Hands Light Stars Felt Waiting Walks Sun Growing Tree Sky Land Middle Wind Moon Mouths Red Stones England Bones Weather Thick Pale Hung Brushes Bricks Beard Trunks Eyelashes Tree Trunks

Author:Rachel Joyce

“If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.”

Ifs Body Age Tree Rings Mature Trunks Tree Trunks

Author:Robert M. Hensel

“A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.”

Men Stories Earth Grows Growth Tree Hair Built Size Nine Towers Blades Trunks Tree Trunks

Author:Laozi

“I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular... but now I've learned to love them.”

Self Tree Conscious Legs I've Learned Self Conscious Trunks Body Confidence Tree Trunks

Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat-glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?”

“Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.”

Persons Soul God Spirit Tree Judgment Suicide Sinner Trunks Judgment Day Tree Trunks

Book:The Tenth Circle: A Novel

Source: The Tenth Circle: A Novel

“All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases, chests, cupboards, and ovens represent the uterus...Rooms in dreams are usually women...Many landscapes in dreams, especially any containing breidges or wooded hills, may clearly be recognized as descriptions of the genitals.”

May Dream Lasts Rooms Cases Tree Objects Sticks Males Boxes Opening Hills Landscape Description Chests Organs Umbrella Trunks Containing Ovens Cupboards Uterus Tree Trunks

Author:Sigmund Freud

“I always thought jazz was like the trunk of a tree. After the tree has grown, many branches have spread out. They're all with different leaves and they all look beautiful. But at the end of the season, they fold back up and it's still the tree trunk.”

Looks Stills Different Ends Beautiful Tree Seasons Jazz Spread Branches Folds Trunks Tree Trunks

Author:Earl Hines

“Now the seasons are closing their files on each of us, the heavy drawers full of certificates rolling back into the tree trunks, a few old papers flocking away. Someone we loved has fallen from our thoughts, making a little, glittering splash like a bicycle pushed by a breeze. Otherwise, not much has happened; we fell in love again, finding that one red feather on the wind.”

Source: Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985

“However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.”

Long Turns Tree Rivers Trunks Crocodiles Tree Trunks

Book:Xala

Source: Xala

“A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.”

People Thinking World Want Children Made Kids Mother Tree Independent Affair Private Life Thighs Trunks Public Affairs Tree Trunks

Author:J. Courtney Sullivan

“When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured.”

Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

“I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.”

“I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.”

Two Strong Sides Tree Independent Trunks Tree Trunks Two Trees

Author:Agyness Deyn