Best Tree Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 33

“God crowns us. Most people crown their Christmas trees with either an angel or a star. God uses both.”

People Use Stars Tree Angel Crowns Christmas Tree

“Our task is to stand tall in God's love, secure in our place, sparkling in kindness, surrounded by his goodness, freely giving to all who come our way. You, me, and the Christmas tree. Picked, purchased, and pruned.”

Way Giving Kindness Tree Goodness Tasks Secure Tall God's Love Sparkling Christmas Tree

Author:Max Lucado

“When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I could see the ocean. At low tide I went out and played in seagrass meadows that used to come right up to the shore, filled with tiny seahorses, pipefish and soft corals. There was so much life! But then I witnessed the change, the loss of the shoreline, the loss of the mangrove trees, the loss of the seagrass meadows. Shallow bay areas were turned into parking lots.”

Used Loss Tree Ocean Lows Areas Moved Filled Tiny Shore Mexico Tides Florida Shallow Jersey Meadows Parking New Jersey Backyards Parking Lot Bay Area Gulf Of Mexico Shoreline

Author:Sylvia Earle

“I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads. This had a profound effect on my view of the world - vast, open-ended, full of opportunity, and ready for exploration.”

World Running Opportunity Views Tree Effects Fields Ready Red Towns Profound Track Tiny Miles Exploration Dirt Patches Wheat Railroads Oklahoma Railroad Tracks Dirt Roads

Author:Chelsea Manning

“I want people to think of Hawaii and think of palm trees and magical islands and Bruno Mars.”

People Thinking Want Tree Islands Mars Palms Hawaii Palm Trees

Author:Bruno Mars

“The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, "Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.”

People Wells Mean Bigs Beautiful Tree Land Fine Democratic Extraordinary Hills Landscape Lakes Republic Congo Beautiful People Really Beautiful Democratic Republic

Author:Alice Walker

“Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree's log.”

Sun Fire Tree

Book:Critical Path

Source: Critical Path

“The Lord is in everything that's in creation. So, when you look at a tree, it's really a reflection of God. You see it in other people - that's him too, you know?”

People Knows Looks Lord Tree Creation Reflection

Author:George Harrison

“The way to beat the Klitschkos is to get inside, under the jab, and bang to the body. Do that for two or three or four rounds and then the hands will come down and then you turn them over. It's like chopping a tree down. These guys try to headhunt when they fight them and that won't work. But you back them up, the younger brother especially, and he loses heart.”

Way Trying Heart Two Body Hands Guy Turns Fighting Three Loses Four Tree Brother Beats Down And Rounds Over It Bangs Chopping Younger Brother

Author:Gerry Cooney

“I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.”

Littles Bigs Tree Childhood Six Climbs Farms Grandparent Weeping Motorbike Willow Trees Weeping Willows

Author:Miranda Kerr

“I was raised a Catholic, but with very liberal parents, so I had to find my spirituality. I've been looking for it since I was a child. I would find it in pieces of art, music, flowers, trees. Now I've come full circle finding God in clouds, flowers, and trees.”

Children Art Spirituality Parent Pieces Tree Flower Findings Catholic Raised Clouds Circles Art Music Full Circle Finding God

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys still have recognizably the same genes. You could carry on right on down to humans and bacteria, and you will find continuous compelling evidence for the hierarchical tree of cousinship.”

Humans Stills Common Tree Evidence Genes Compelling Monkeys Cousin Bacteria

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Things only 'show up' for us as they do, as Heidegger would put, in and through practical engagements with the world that enable objects to have significance and salience - as hammers, pots, trees or whatever.”

World Shows Tree Objects Practicals Significance Pot Engagement Hammers Heidegger

Author:David E. Cooper

“One thing that attracts me in Daoism and Heidegger is a delicate combination of recognizing deep differences between human being and any other kind of being, and a desire, nevertheless, to cultivate an intimacy with animals, trees, mountains and so on.”

Humans Kind Desire Differences Human Beings Animal One Thing Tree Mountain Intimacy Combination Delicate Nevertheless Recognizing Heidegger

Author:David E. Cooper

“This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but whenever we applied the healing knife a new sore appeared. Our will was hard and pure, we should have been loved by the people, but they hate us. Why are we so odious and detested? We brought you truth and in our mouth it sounded like a lie. We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands like a whip. We brought you the living life, and where our voice is heard the trees wither and there is a rustling of dry leaves. We brought you the promise of the future, but our tongue stammered and barked.”

“When I walk, I try to set a fairly brisk rate. I love walking outside. I hate machines like treadmills. The path that I have chosen to walk is just city streets, but you see pretty houses, trees... my routes have some hills in them; it's not just straight walking. You have to exercise your heart and lungs.”

Trying Heart Hate House Walks Cities Path Tree Streets Walking Exercise Machines I Hate Rate Chosen Hills Routes Lungs Treadmills City Streets

Author:Rita Moreno

“Freedom of life does not mean disorder of life, does not mean chaos, and just everyone doing anything he wants. That is not the freedom of life. The tree, when you give it a chance, protect it when it is young, will grow straight, because it has developed its own resistance; but the moment you make it delicate, then it gets crooked.”

Want Giving Mean Doe Moments Young Grows Chance Tree Protect Chaos Resistance Disorder Delicate Crooked Give It A Chance

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“If I'm reading about a river or the trees or the wind blowing or the stars at night, if you can hear that in the music in some way, you've wedded the two and your imagination takes off. To be able to hear that in music is really important.”

Ifs Way Two Important Able Night Reading Stars Imagination Tree Wind Music Is Rivers Wind Blowing

Author:Julie Andrews

“We keep the negative stuff because it's the negative stuff that's going to, you know, potentially kill us. That fin in the water - maybe it is a shark. That yellow thing behind the tree - maybe it is a lion. You need to be scared.”

Knows Needs Stuff Water Behinds Tree Negative Scared Lions Yellow Sharks Fins

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“Tariqah [The Spiritual Path] without the Sharia [Islamic Law] is like having a pistachio tree without the shell. Or a walnut, a walnut cannot grow on a tree without having a shell, and the food that you eat is inside the shell.”

Spiritual Law Grows Path Tree Islamic Shells Spiritual Path Sharia Walnuts Islamic Law Pistachios

Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.”

Self My Own Tree Fruit Sufficient Milk Cows Wheat Self Sufficient Fruit Trees

Author:Imran Khan

“I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.”

Doe Tree Inspire Wall Stones Roots Block Cracks Marble Evoke Pebbles

Author:Pablo Picasso

“We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.”

Needs Term Millions Tree Streets Safe Plant London Cycles Why Not Squares Parliament Mayors Oxford Oxford Street

Author:Sadiq Khan

“I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees.”

Want Doe Tree Spring Cherries Cherry Blossom Cherry Trees

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.”

Ends Water White Tree Wide Brown Ducks Palaces Weeping Cherries Paddling Cherry Blossom Cherry Trees Moats

Book:The Commoner

Source: The Commoner

“I use a lot of similes and metaphors when I work, simply because it's my best way of describing a building or a scene. I'm terrible at describing landscapes - trees, buildings. The inanimate things don't interest me: I always think, "Oh, no, here comes another building I have to describe." So I usually use a simile or metaphor.”

Thinking Way Use Interest Tree Building Terrible Scene Metaphor Best Way Landscape Simile Describing

Author:Robert Cormier

“I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.”

Way Loses Tree Shapes Distinction Losing Yourself

Author:Wendell Berry

“To me, everything is endless variations on other things. Like waves in the ocean. They continue to turn over on each other, and they're all slightly different. I don't know if originality is possible. Is it even necessary? Because everything is different than what came before, but it's all branches from the same tree. Originality is overrated, but what you do with things is always different.”

Ifs Knows Different Turns Tree Ocean Wave Endless Branches Originality Variation Overrated

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“That's all I can do, is continue to plant the seeds; some will be trees, some will be plants, some will be bushes, some will bear fruits, some are for the season. My constant flow is to keep putting out quality and letting it get into the right hands.”

I Can Hands Can Do Quality Tree Bears Flow Seasons Constant Plant Fruit Seeds

Author:Salaam Remi

“When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line, but in fact it's nothing like that. The work is very experimental and most of the time it develops like branches. I usually see a capillary, like a tree shape where there are... branches that sort of move because you're not tending to them.”

Feels Looks May Facts Moving Lines Tree Like You Shapes Productions Branches Organize Straight Lines

Author:Vik Muniz

“I'm husband hunting. Now, I know all the men are going to be gay but at this point, I need a new gay husband. Or, a new lesbian assistant. If you want something done, tell a lesbian and the she'll chop down a tree. Something like that.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Needs Done Tree He Man Gay Husband Hunting Want Something Assistants

Author:Judy Tenuta

“My argument for that is: Why not create urban farms that are like parks, on public land? There actually is a park that I see as a model: Dover Street Park in Oakland. They took this park that has swings and playground-type things and turned it into a farm. There's not chickens, just annual vegetables interspersed with fruit trees. And it's super cool because you see people playing with their kids and then they go pick raspberries and some greens for dinner.”

People Kids Tree Argument Urban

Author:Novella Carpenter

“My manager called me once during one of my vacations and said, "I have a fantastic offer for you. Just hear me out. Don't say no yet." And it was fantastic offer but I said, "Seymour, I'd love to do it, but I really can't. My orchid trees are in bloom. I never leave when my orchid trees are in bloom." He thought it was crazy, but I am very into certain things. If a dog is sick I won't work.”

Tree Crazy Dog Sick Fantastic Vacation

Author:Liberace

“I am a morning person...I love waking up, walking & reveling In the beauty of all the flowers and trees....while chugging a 5th of vodka!!! It could happen.”

Morning Tree Flower Walking Wake Up Vodka

Author:Judy Tenuta

“Someone told me once - I mean I said, "Is it ok that I don't really know what the three-act structure is?" And he said, "It's basically: Act 1: a guy climbs up a tree; Act 2: people come and throw stuff at him; Act 3: he gets down."”

People Mean Guy Tree

Author:George Saunders

“I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.”

Thinking Kids Religious Tree Training Our Family

Author:Jonathan Raymond

“The time came around where the label was like, "Well, if you want something to come out in early 2017, it's going to have to be done by, like, so-and-so." So I plucked some of the old songs and wrote some new ones. Everybody keeps asking me, "Is this your L.A. record?" I was doing songs in a bedroom in New York, I was doing it in a bedroom in L.A. The only difference is when I look out the window, there's palm trees instead of snow.”

Done Song Tree Window Snow Bedroom Old Song

Author:Mac DeMarco

“If we are ever truly going to find purpose and meaning in our lives, we first have to rise above the trees to rediscover the forest - we have to understand what God is doing in the world and how we fit in.”

World Purpose Tree Fit Rise Above

Book:The Hole in Our Gospel Special Edition: What Does God Expect of Us? The Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World

Source: The Hole in Our Gospel Special Edition: What Does God Expect of Us? The Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World

“You know how some trees have those ear mushrooms that just grow off, and you could live on one of those mushrooms and not realize that there was stacks and stacks of others? That's how I describe music scenes in New York. That's one of the trippiest things about living here - just how many parallel universes there are that you can be completely unaware of.”

Universe Realizing Tree Scene Parallel Universe

Author:Caroline Polachek

“We don't know whether we'll be able to go to school because of budgetary constraints; that might not be bad because the schools are not doing anything of value for our children in the first place. Jesus said you can tell a tree by the fruit it bears and if the educational system of White America is good for us, where is the fruit from that system that says so?”

Children School Values Jesus Tree Our Children Educational

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“I am a one-trick pony. If you tell most people to draw a picture of a tree, they'd draw 35 branches and 10,000 leaves. I will draw you a tree with four branches and three leaves, and I'll spend the rest of the week drawing inside of each leaf. In terms of the grand gesture, I reserve that maximum turbo blast energy for what I do as an artist, and I sing and dance for dinner.”

People Artist Energy Term Tree Week

Author:David Lee Roth

“That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.”

Years Kids Used Father Tree Jokes Great Things Celebrate New Year My Birthday

Author:Alan King

“As time has gone on and we're at the end of the 20th century and major publishing is a big business, yes, of course we're going to get a lot of plain, mediocre trash. There are a lot of writers who get huge advances for books that don't go anywhere and they have to burn them somewhere or throw them away. I always think about all the poor trees that have been sacrificed.”

Thinking Book Poor Tree Publishing Mediocre 20th Century Big Business

Author:Ana Castillo

“Almost everything about the universe is astounding. I think the most amazing thing is how gifted we are - we are only monkeys who came down from the trees just recently. We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running.”

Thinking Running Universe Tree Painting Mathematics Most Amazing

Author:Freeman Dyson

“One day at Princeton, I noticed there were dead birds on the pavement between the campus buildings, where very large trees were. It turns out it was DDT. At the time, in the early '50s, no one thought DDT was dangerous to anybody but insects. I went down to the Daily Princetonian, the college paper, and tried to persuade them to do a story. They said, "Naw, there's nothing wrong." But that taught me a very important lesson. One, that newspaper people can get very jaded. Second, that you might know something, like an expert chemistry professor, you are not going to apply what you know.”

People Important Tree Dangerous Building College One Day Bird Chemistry

Author:Ralph Nader

“With empathy you know in your heart that it's not a sign of weakness to attempt to understand that the people we call terrorists have placed the same label on us, and that the use of force will create a counter force, a never-ending saga of killing and hate. Ending war involves cultivating empathy in our policies and the love of God in our hearts. As the Native Americans reminded us: No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves.”

People Heart War Hate Fighting Tree Policy Empathy Weakness Killing Foolish Terrorist God Love Native Native American Saga

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I think it happens to a lot of people who make music just on a computer by themselves, you don't see the bigger picture. You don't see the forest for the trees. You're looking at every tree so closely, and every tree looks so cool. But you're making a forest, man, you're not making a tree.”

People Thinking Men Tree Computer Bigger Picture

Author:Eef Barzelay

“If you read about a tree, and there is a description, you have to grow that tree in your mind. So that's an active way of looking at media, whereas a movie or a TV will be passive, because they are showing you the tree. In the same way, when somebody sings a song for you, those words get so much in the foreground, that even if you take a minor key of music and then put like happy lyrics to it and people think it's a happy song. So, in a song, you are told what to feel, whereas, in an instrumental music, you get as much out of it as you are willing to put into it.”

People Thinking Mind Song Tree Passive

Author:Ottmar Liebert

“I am from many places. I am from a hike across Tuscany...waves of golden wheat undulating on the hills...tractors plowing new vineyards...taxi drivers yelling, "Bella!" I am from a canoe motoring through marshes in the Amazon outside Manaus, Brazil... Jacana birds taking flight as we pass houses on stilts... giant trees and lily pads...and giggling children jumping into the lake for a swim during a downpour, while I stand unbelievably drenched but baptized by a oneness of spirit.”

Children Spirit House Tree Bird Wave Flight Hills Swim Taxi Baptized

Author:Marie Bradby

“The one I spend the most amount of time in is a Ford Galaxy, which my tour manager drives me around in and which I drive at the weekends. What I love about the Galaxy is the amount of space I get. I can get so much done in the back of it while we're on the road, it's like my mobile office! I've also got a Ford B-Max, which I'm a total evangelist about. It's got rear doors that slide. Now, I can't park, so those are the best things ever. You can park right up against a tree and still get out!”

Done Tree Office Weekend Galaxy

Author:Russell Kane

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