Best Tree Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 11

“. . . . spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it attached to the lips of a trout.”

Tree Sea Rivers Lips Fishes Spending Boat Branches Lakes Fishing More Time Trout

Author:Tom Sutcliffe

“When I began to play Frisbee, I would play with my friends and we used to do difficult things. We would stand in front of lines of trees that were parallel. We would spend hours throwing frisbees back and forth between these tight spots.”

Play Used Difficult Hours Lines Tree Fronts My Friends Spots Throwing Parallels Back And Forth Difficult Things Rama Frisbee

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast movement, and his mounted men could get from here to there much faster than any infantry could; but when they reached the field they usually tied their horses to trees and fought on foot, and they were as good as the very best infantry. Not for nothing did Forrest say the essence of strategy was to git thar fust with the most men.”

Men War Use Used History Tree Feet Modern Movement Fields Essence Horse Strategy Faster Civil War Tied American Civil War Horsemen Infantry

Book:American Heritage History of the Civil War

Source: American Heritage History of the Civil War

“I said to them last week that I'd like them to win ugly and they certainly won ugly today. That was the ugliest thing I've seen since the ugly sisters fell out of the ugly tree.”

Said Today Lasts Winning Tree Week Football Ugly Managers Soccer Chairman

Author:Terry Butcher

“The effect of the corporation, under the prevailing policy of the free, go-as-you-please method of organization and management, has been to drive the bulk of our people, other than farmers, out of property ownership; and, if allowed to go on as present, it will keep them out... The paramount problem is not how to stop the growth of property, and the building up of wealth, but how to manage it so that every species of property, like a healthy growing tree will spread its roots deeply and widely in the soil of a popular proprietorship.”

“In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought me a box camera which I treasured for years. Initially I clicked trees and nature and as I grew up started noticing prettier things-motorbike, sleek cars and cool girls. But the hamartia of life is when you desire something you cannot afford it and when you are able to afford it you are too old to use it. Now I don't need all gadgets but it's satisfying to know that at least I can afford them.”

Knows Needs Years I Can Use Able Life Is Desire Girl Father Tree Childhood Car Grew Grew Up Cameras Boxes Obsessed Satisfying Persuasion Noticing Gadgets Treasured Motorbike Cool Girl

Author:Amitabh Bachchan

“The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive.”

Thinking Stills Important War One Thing Tree Worship Important Things Scripts Civil War

Author:Kim Novak

“In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.”

People Way Years Struggle Gone Clear Tree Circumstances Protect Years Ago Tiny Forests Parks Over It Isolated Patches Flew Tanzania Struggling To Survive

Author:Jane Goodall

“Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.”

“If the aim is to keep "Christ" in the shopping-mall Christmas or to ensure that pagan trees and mistletoe don't lose their Christian labels, then it might make sense to attack presidents and business owners who commit the "happy holiday" sin. But if the goal is to restore the religious meaning of the Christian holy day, then they are aiming at the wrong Target.”

“Another striding instance is recorded by the very intelligent traveler regarding a representation of the fall of our first parents, sculptured in the magnificent temple of Ipsambul in Nubia. He says that a very exact representation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is to be seen in that cave, and that the serpent climbing round the tree is especially delineated, and the whole subject of the tempting of our first parents most accurately exhibited.”

“A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair at the foot of the ambrosial tree, and a serpent entwined among the heavily-laden boughs, presenting to them some of the fruit from his mouth.”

Firsts Tree Feet Atheism Mouths India South Fruit Positive Atheism Drawing Temples Pairs Caves Columns Presenting Serpent Colonels Entwined

Author:Godfrey Higgins

“I don't get tired. I get beat up. You keep chopping on a tree, you need to give the tree some rest so the chlorophyll will fill back up and the tree gets its energy back.”

Needs Giving Energy Tree Basketball Beats Tired Chopping

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.”

Helping Mother Parent Memories Morning Tree Dad Eating Spending Sunday Toasts Your Dad Christmas Tree Decorating Sunday Morning Popeye French Toast

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here and a bird there." The beginning stage is always the sound. From that, slowly, stories come about based on what I'm reading or thinking at the time, but if I didn't have that sound I don't know what I would do.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Stories Reading Sound Tree Stage Painting Bird

Author:Ali Banisadr

“I was so urban-centric once. I did not want to see a patch of grass. I did not want to look at a tree. I didn't want to be anywhere near a sparrow, or a squirrel, or a pigeon, because I just wanted to be consumed by the asphalt-jungle aspect of New York.”

Want Looks Wanted Tree New York Aspect Grass Urban Jungle Consumed Patches Pigeons Squirrels Sparrows Asphalt

Author:Carlos Dengler

“I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and does that is at the bottom of the ladder, but in Japan, say, someone who goes up into the mountains is accorded great respect. I guess I am somewhere in between. I enjoy reclusion: it clears my mind.”

Mind Doe America Enjoy Tree Wind Mountain Bottom Blow Japan Ladders Great Respect Recluse

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“I know that I was hiking at a very young age because I remember being convinced that it was the trees that were talking.”

Knows Age Remember Young Talking Tree Convinced Hiking Young Age

Author:Jennifer Pharr Davis

“Best player? For me, it's Paul Scholes. He'll do ridiculous things in training like say, “You see that tree over there?” - it'll be 40 yards away - “I'm going to hit it”. And he'll do it. Everyone at the club considers him the best.”

Player Tree Training Clubs Ridiculous Yards Best Players Scholes Paul Scholes Ridiculous Things

Author:Rio Ferdinand

“Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.”

“Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.”

Earth Stars Watches Sun Growing Tree Movement Creation Planets Activity Ocean Streams Unending Growing Tree

Author:Maria Montessori

“In any trial, in any bitter situation, you are not alone, you are not helpless, you are not a victim. You have a tree, a cross, shown to you by the Sovereign God of Calvary. Whatever the trial or temptation, it is not more than you can bear. It is bearable. It can be handled. You can know as Joseph knew, "You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive" (Genesis 50:20).”

People Knows Order Evil Results Situation Alive Tree Bears Crosses Victim Trials Bitter Temptation Preserves Helpless Sovereign Not Alone Genesis Bearable Calvary

Book:Beloved: From God's Heart to Yours

Source: Beloved: From God's Heart to Yours

“A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.”

Looks Stills Home Tree Within You Look At Me Longing For Home

Author:Hermann Hesse

“I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.”

Race Tree Roots My Family Streams Trout

Book:Locusts and Wild Honey

Source: Locusts and Wild Honey

“Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?”

Thinking Men Way Lasts Life Is Space Mistake Break Tree Cry Proud Bird Sight Fishes Wounds One Way Posts Branches Desperate Swim Fence Things Change Another Way Holding On Proud Man Fence Post

Author:Tim Finn

“This rose became a bandanna, which became a house, which became infused with all passion, which became a hideaway, which became yes I would like to have dinner, which became hands, which became lands, shores, beaches, natives on the stones, staring and wild beasts in the trees, chasing the hats of lost hunters, and all this deserves a tone.”

Hands Passion House Lost Tree Land Deserve Stones Rose Dinner Beach Staring Tone Beast Hats Shore Hunters Chasing Wild Beasts

Book:Days and Nights

Source: Days and Nights

“I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees.”

Way Needs Wells Use Action Earth Choices My Own Creative Clear Tree Guilt Storm Buying Avoiding Another Way

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.”

Two Grows Tree Roots Fallen Branches

Author:Louis de Bernieres

“Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.”

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world of 'now' with the world of the ancestors, and is part of the great tree of life extending in time and eternity.”

World Past Culture Tree Birth Eternity Traditional Links Ancestor Childbirth Extending Past Present Past Present And Future Intersections Tree Of Life

Author:Sheila Kitzinger

“The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth”

Earth Voice Tree Window Come Up Dumb Yearning

Book:Stray Birds

Source: Stray Birds

“I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.”

Trying Looks Class Tree Feet Far Away Just Being Clown Benches Suspended

Author:Damon Wayans, Jr.

“My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.”

Thinking Sports Tree Football Brother My Favorite My Brother Climbing Climbing Trees Playing Outside

Author:Madeline Carroll

“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.”

Knows Stills Tree Arms Standing Sticks Bones Lovely Dancer November

Book:In November

Source: In November

“I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better.”

Trying I Can Ends Grows Growth Tree Life Changing Short Life Full Potential Change Is Good

Author:Christofer Drew

“The family trees of Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer are everywhere so laden with figures of accomplishment that one might expect future generations to be burdened by it all. But the welter of wonderfulness that was their heritage seemed to have been a boon, one that buoyed them up so that each child seems not only to have stood on the shoulders of giants but also to have danced on them.”

Children Has Beens Seems Might Generations Tree Figures Shoulders Accomplishment Giants Heritage Future Generation Boon Bonhoeffer

Book:Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Source: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

“A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.”

Book Bigs Tree Window Pool Cheese Frogs Crow Dairy Looking Down

Book:The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

Source: The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

“Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.”

Young Tree Oaks Thistles

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.”

Men Age Young Tree Plant Fruit Old Man

Book:The Complete Poems: (including Psalms I. to L. in Verse, and Other Hitherto Unpublished Mss.)

Source: The Complete Poems: (including Psalms I. to L. in Verse, and Other Hitherto Unpublished Mss.)

“The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.”

People Wells Social Tree Pleasant

Author:Willa Cather

“When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.”

Ifs Feels White Rich Tree Car Flower Shining Fruit Paris Vivid Utopian Biting Chestnuts Spaciousness

Author:Anais Nin

“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]

“I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.”

People Believe Passion Work Tree Don't Believe Excited

Book:Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922

Source: Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922

“we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.”

Lasts Pleasure Tree

Book:The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

Source: The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“I love the evening star. Does that sound foolish? I used to go into the backyard, after sunset, and wait for it until it shone above the dark gum tree. I used to whisper 'There you are, my darling.' And just in that first moment it seemed to be shining for me alone. It seemed to understand this ... something which is like longing, and yet it is not longing. Or regret - it is more like regret.”

Firsts Doe Moments Used Stars Waiting Sound Dark Tree Regret Longing Shining Foolish Evening Sunset Darling Me Alone Backyards Gum

Book:Undiscovered country: the New Zealand stories of Katherine Mansfield

Source: Undiscovered country: the New Zealand stories of Katherine Mansfield

“Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an hour, the trees wail, little animals skitter in the mud and everything gets dark and goes completely wild. But it is really God - playing music in his favourite cathedral in heaven - shattering stained glass - playing a gigantic organ - thundering on the keys - perfect harmony - perfect joy.”

Source: DAYBREAK

“It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.”

Ifs Men Culture Tree Produce Flower Fruit Covered Virtuous Grain Vicious Fruit Trees

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered; Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee, Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree.”

Children Black Tree Fruit Heavy Tall Echoes Gathering Grapes November Ripe Shouting Glee Grove Chestnuts Walnuts Walnut Trees

Author:William C. Bryant

“Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.”

Beautiful Tree Sky Sunset Silver Tall Shade Orange Palms Isle Palm Trees Orange Trees

Author:William C. Bryant

“Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun, Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze, And shot towards heaven.”

Looks Hands Earth Father Heaven Sun Tree Shots Fairs Green Rose Naked Roof Breeze Columns Green Leaves

Author:William C. Bryant

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