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“A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.”

Knows Made Dream Seems Courses Lost Nature Dark Sun Tree Color Wind Bird Rain Roots Presses Clouds Warm Storm Rising Soil Afternoon Juice Nests Plunge Tranquil Sap Elementals Fermentation

Author:Jacques Roumain

“...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.”

“Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.”

Sometimes Artist Tree Woods Forests And Trees

Author:Elton John

“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.”

Ifs Want Giving Play Pay Tree Give Me Fruit Want Me More Money You Want Me If You Want Me

Author:Danny Trejo

“I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees taught me the meaning of humility, and my work with the ice has taught me the meaning of mortality.”

Bigs Tree Humility Taught Ice Mortality Wildlife

Author:James Balog

“Life is miraculous, even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible, I'm fascinated with everything, life is fascinating, I'm fascinated by trees and dogs, but no one wants to hear me talk about it.”

Want Stills Life Is Tree Dog Incredibles Fascinating Fascinated Miraculous

Author:Chris Martin

“Lights are glowing in the palm trees.”

Light Tree Palms Glowing Palm Trees

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and enjoy. We've got to be able to do both - protect water quality and species, as well as harvest trees.”

Needs Wells Use Able Fall Enjoy Sides Water Common Quality Tree Products Protect Species Woods Common Sense Harvest Water Quality

Author:John Hancock

“While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide the value of a 700-year-old tree? We need only to ask how much it would cost to make a new one, or a new river, or even a new atmosphere.”

Way Needs Giving Years May Values Asks Tree Cost Rivers Forests Atmosphere Right Way Wrong Way Old Trees

Author:Paul Hawken

“We can plant a house, we can build a tree.”

House Tree Plant

Author:Kurt Cobain

“George Foreman can knock down an oak tree ... but oak trees don't move.”

Moving Tree Oaks Oak Tree

Author:Angelo Dundee

“We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.”

“Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.”

Looks Doe Seems Tree Hero Fruit Shakes Looking Good Ripe

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew.”

Half Tree Scene Green Flames Contradiction Wholeness Dew Foliage

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.”

Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

“Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come down!" Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. "I can't," he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. "Why?" they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky. "Because then you'll stop asking for me."”

Said I Can Night Speak Stars Black Silence Tree Sky Died Asking Filled Notes Cried History Of Love Wistfulness

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.”

Want Long Stills Fall Tree Picks Fruit Odds Sour Bruises Conscientiousness

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.”

Sun Tree Feet Humility Pride Strikes Cease Firm Towers

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The tree is known by his fruit.”

Known Tree Fruit

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.”

Ifs Years Art Grows Grief Tree Racism Raises Plant Seven Addiction Prisoner Entity Globes Frogs Static

Author:Nalini Nadkarni

“In felling a tree we should cut into the trunk of it to the very heart, and then leave it standing so that the sap may drain out drop by drop throughout the whole of it... Then and not till then, the tree being drained dry and the sap no longer dripping, let it be felled and it will be in the highest state of usefulness.”

Should Heart May States Whole Cutting Tree Highest Standing Dry Drains Usefulness Trunks Sap Drained Dripping

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.”

Mean Tree Juice Hollow

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The leaves of these [larch] trees are like those of the pine; timber from them comes in long lengths, is as easily wrought in joiner's work as is the clearwood of fir, and contains a liquid resin, of the color of Attic honey, which is good for consumptives.”

Long Tree Color Length Honey Liquid Attics Timber

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Trees which grow in places facing the course of the sun are not of porous fiber but are solid, being drained by the dryness... The trees in sunny neighborhoods, therefore, being solidified by the compact texture of their fiber, and not being porous from moisture, are very useful, so far as durability goes, when they are hewn into timber. The lowland firs, being conveyed from sunny places, are better than those highland firs, which are brought here from shady places.”

Courses Grows Sun Tree Neighborhood Texture Sunny Fiber Compact Drained Shady Timber Moisture Durability

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through the roots, recover themselves and are restored to their former solid texture. But the strong air of winter compresses and solidifies them.”

Earth Strong Air Tree Roots Fruit Winter Former Autumn Texture Sap Ripening

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.”

Long Tree Clothes Green Stealing Perceive Queens Mulberry

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.”

Years Law Wise Tree Waste Plant Suits Palms Lawsuit Palm Trees

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“So, just for one more merry day To the great Tree the leaflets clung, Frolicked and danced and had their way, Upon the autumn breezes swung.”

Way Tree Autumn Breeze Merry

Author:Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

“Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.”

Tree Temples Sheep Lightning Altars Wrecks Pillars Displeasure Sacrilegious

Author:Seneca the Younger

“As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.”

People Tree Bottom Climbs Monkeys

Author:Jean-Louis Gassee

“The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it; for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut.”

Men Body Spirit Tree Subjects Delight Nuts Worms Drunkenness Ivy Old Trees

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works

“When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.”

Government Wish Cutting Tree Fruit Bottom Savages Despotism Louisiana

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.”

Men May Age Parent Sides Tree Pride Daughter Ruins Thee Old Man Fitting Oaks

Book:Woodstock, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.24

Source: Woodstock, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.24

“It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.”

“Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.”

“There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.”

Source: Proceedings, Speeches,&c. at the Dinner given to Louis Kossuth at the National Hotel, Washington, Jan. 7, 1852

“Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and proud of her immortal nature, she ought to derive everything from herself.”

Reason Tree Ought Proud Ancient Vanity Immortal Display Proceeding

Author:Suzanne Curchod

“The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations in the social sciences are mere pathways which lead through a riotous forest of individual trees, each a species unto itself. The social scientist who loses this sense of the essential individuality and uniqueness of each case is all too likely to make a solemn scientific ass of himself, especially if he thinks that his faceless generalizations are the equivalents of the rich vareity of the world.”

“Along a stream that raced and ran Through tangled trees and over stones, That long had heard the pipes o' Pan And shared the joys that nature owns, I met a fellow fisherman, Who greeted me in cheerful tones. . . . . Foes think the bad in him they've guessed And prate about the wrong they scan; Friends that have seen him at his best Believe they know his every plan; I know him better than the rest, I know him as a fisherman.”

Thinking Knows Believe Long Joy Plans Heard Tree Mets Stones Fellows Ran Tone Streams Fishing Cheerful Foe Pipe Fisherman Tangled Best Believe

Author:Edgar Guest

“There's nothing that builds up a toil-weary soul Like a day on a stream, Back on the banks of the old fishing hole Where a fellow can dream. There's nothing so good for a man as to flee From the city and lie Full length in the shade of a whispering tree And gaze at the sky. . . . . It is good for the world that men hunger to go To the banks of a stream, And weary of sham and of pomp and of show They have somewhere to dream. For this life would be dreary and sordid and base Did they not now and then Seek refreshment and calm in God's wide, open space And come back to be men.”

“The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.”

Book Generations Tree Farms Twisted Meadows Separating Marshes

Book:The Rainbow

Source: The Rainbow

“[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.”

Men Children Earth Water Sun Tree Flower Creatures Bird All Things Stones Relation Finals Fishes Cosmos Fishing Rainbow Insects

Book:Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

“Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.”

People Littles Fall Change Tree Position Balls Bitter Dust Dry Worms Ripe

Book:Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

“Look at the flowers-for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.”

Looks Reason Tree Flower No Reason Unbelievable Inspirational Nature Simply Happy

Author:Rajneesh

“You are daydreaming about the future because you have not tasted the present. Start tasting the present. Find out a few moments where you are simply delighting. Looking at the trees, just be the look. Listening to the birds, just be a listening ear. Let them reach to your deepest core. Let their song spread all over your being.”

Looks Moments Song Tree Listening Future Bird Ears Spread Core Over You Where You Are Daydreaming Tasting Listening Ear

Author:Rajneesh

“We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.”

Source: Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

“Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.”

Desire Tree Morality Fruit Former Latter Orange Orange Trees

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.”

Order Tree Ancient Twilight Pastures

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as they be; There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be: There are no men like Englishmen, So tall and bold as they be! And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free To foil and spoil the tyrant Beneath the greenwood tree.”

Men Heart Light Tree Land England Strikes Tall Tyrants Spoil Englishmen Oaks Maids Foils

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves-- Hides her fruit under them, hard to find. . . . . But by and by, when the flowers grow few And the fruits are dwindling and small to view-- Out she comes in her matron grace With the purple myriads of her race; Full of plenty from root to crown, Showering plenty her feet adown. While far over head hang gorgeously Large luscious berries of sanguine dye, For the best grows highest, always highest, Upon the mulberry-tree.”

Long Hard Grows Views Race Grace Tree Feet Flower Clothes Highest Roots Green Fruit Stealing Plenty Perceive Queens Crowns Purple Berries Sanguine Mulberry

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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