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“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!”

“It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of man himself and animals, trees, rocks and streams. Every attempt at a formula, a short-cut, a panacea, always ends in negation and destruction.”

Men Ends Earth Animal Cutting Tree Rocks Destruction Environmental Streams Formulas Agriculture Nature Of Man Negation Short Cuts Panacea

Author:Louis Bromfield

“The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree”

Home Earth Heaven Tree Environmental Wide Roof

Book:Poems of William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Source: Poems of William Edmondstoune Aytoun

“The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.”

Running Earth Voice Sun Tree Bird Hot Environmental Cooling Mead Grasshoppers Hot Sun

Author:John Keats

“The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.”

Men World Earth Evil Water Tree Sky Bird Environmental Fishes Evil Man Evil World

Author:Saint Augustine

“Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life.”

Feels Looks Moments Hands Focus Tree Buddhism Mindfulness Grass Palms Ferrari Outrun Palm Trees

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.”

Tree Creation Taste Garden Fruit Insult Wickedness Comeback Temperance

Author:Stephen Fry

“I was a caddy. I also worked as a bouncer, selling Christmas trees at Frank's Nursery and before that, selling what they normally sell.”

Tree Sells Selling Frank Nursery Christmas Tree

Author:Joseph Bruce

“The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That's why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.”

People Made Two Beautiful Humanity Tree Creating Mathematics Forests Mathematical Expansion Alliances Combining Humanity And Nature

Author:Agnes Denes

“As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside of the city, that's what they do - climb walls, or trees, or whatever. To me, it was more dance classes and not being very boyish.”

Thinking Kids Cities Class Tree Wall Areas Towns Impulse Climbs Small Town Dance Class Rural Areas Boyish

Author:Jamie Bell

“A tree is a being that is more spiritual than material.”

Spiritual Tree Materials

Author:Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

“Carols of gladness ring from every tree.”

Tree Rings Gladness Carols

Author:Fanny Kemble

“Plant no other tree before the vine.”

Tree Plant Vines

Author:Horace

“If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.”

Ifs Men Would Be Artist Tree He Man Flower Kings Photography Paint Photographer Surface

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.”

Knows Men Form Animal Opinion Greater Tree Creatures Stones Infinite Plant Compare Range Cows Contrast Definite Monkeys Deities Splinters

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.”

Care Grows Taken Tree Sky

Book:The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry, from My Own Life

Source: The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry, from My Own Life

“Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.”

Book Soul Enemy Teach Greater Grace Tree Wind Masters Source Stones Mercy Woods Burning Streams Gates Dew Ingratitude

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.”

Ifs Men Use Tree Materials Broken Universal Horse Substance Mold

Book:The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antonius

Source: The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antonius

“The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.”

Tree Climbs Ivy Spray Laurels Rugged Mingling

Author:William C. Bryant

“Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.”

Men Cities Teach Tree Fields Willing

Author:Plato

“One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.”

Inspirational Inspiration Success Work Courage Tree Positive Fruit Planning Climbs Climbing Trees No Pain No Gain

Author:Thomas Fuller

“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.”

Years Eye White Tree Wind Blind Hollow Owl Carried Away Old Trees

Book:Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works

Source: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works

“The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.”

“Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.”

Pleasure Tree Wind Weak Overcoming Blow Senses Temptation Enjoyment Idle

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.”

Knows Language Grows Tree Climbs Grammar Verbs Nouns

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations

“And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.”

Moral Tree Sweet Offers Fruit Bitter Spots Apples Rising Melancholy Weed Ruined Cellars Chimneys Vicissitudes Apple Trees Bitter Sweet

Book:Mosses from an Old Manse

Source: Mosses from an Old Manse

“Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.”

Men Wells Looks Long Faces Form Voice My Own Tree Rivers Wave Remembered Pleasant Look Up Companion Bronx Old Trees

Book:The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems

Source: The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems

“The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.”

Men Long Fall Animal Tree He Man Flower Solitude Speech Understood Rain Tongue Ease Perceive Rejoice Herbs Drought Shrubs

Book:The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc

Source: The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc

“How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.”

Evil Speak Tree Presses Journalism Thee Addresses Good And Evil Eden Idolatry

Author:William Cowper

“Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.”

Tree Rocks Spring Western Breeze Infant Cradle Springtime

Book:The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author

“No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.”

Tree Charm Peculiar Hue Grove

Book:The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations

Source: The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations

“We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.”

Self Tree Bears Waste Spread Screens Indian Range Shade Deprived Umbrella

Book:The task, Tirocinium, and other poems

Source: The task, Tirocinium, and other poems

“O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.”

Wells Might Eye Wise Tree Reader Atheist Contemplating Hollies Sophistry

Author:Robert Southey

“And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?”

Tree Summer Green Woods Display Sober Cheerful Hue Hollies

Book:The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

“Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.”

Ifs Heart Grows Tree Tears Proud Gentle Poison Repentance Remorse Dew Gloomy True Repentance

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you, arms that hold, / And for your spirit's still delight, / Holy thoughts that star the night.”

Stills Eye Spirit Night Stars Tree Love You Arms Holy Rain Gold Sells Delight Scent Curves Loveliness Pine Trees

Book:Love Songs

Source: Love Songs

“The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.”

Tree Clothes Winter Snow Branches Sheets Sock Poke

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.”

Trying Hours Tree Minutes Bears Percent Hundred Our Time Frogs

Author:Stephen Fry

“There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.”

Want Sometimes Perfect Pieces Tree Tears Mountain Perfection Lakes

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.”

Ifs Humans Soul Earth Moving Spirit Animal Wonder Tree Figures Painting Flower Delight Painter Hills Landscape Limbs Fullness Human Soul Petals Figure Painting

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible.”

Way Want I Can Black Talking Doubt Tree Praying Woods Invisible My Way No Doubt Hug Oaks Talkers Oak Tree

Author:Mary Oliver

“If you don't like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn't enough, change it. If something doesn't suit you, change it. If something doesn't please you, change it. You don't ever have to be the same after today. If you don't like your present address change it - you're not a tree!”

Ifs Enough Today Change Tree Like You Please Suits Addresses Suits You

Author:Jim Rohn

“How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, "No, leave the miracle part to me. I've got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I'm God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.”

Ifs Giving Trying Firsts Ends Night Easy Stuff Deals Tree Special Figures Late Tough Rain Seasons Miracle Plant Seeds Soil Sunshine What If Wow Arrangements Reserved

Author:Jim Rohn

“Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, "Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?”

Heart Art Rooms Tree Singing Apples Nests Gloom Apple Trees

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.”

Men Children Doe Ends Joy Sun Tree Sea Return Lifts Anguish Renewal Lofty Coconuts Cyclones

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.”

Tree Remains Emptiness Laziness Idleness Sap Stagnant

Author:Hosea Ballou

“I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine.”

Kind Values Prayer Existence Tree Sea Flower Good Things Edges Smell Routine Meaningless Love Someone

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012

“Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.”

Tree Fruit Shakes Unheard Tree Of Life

Book:Robinson: Poems

Source: Robinson: Poems

“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)

“Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came.”

Mind Kind Littles Christ Tree Masters Shame Blind Clean Woods Gray Olives

Book:Poems of Sidney Lanier

Source: Poems of Sidney Lanier