Best tree & branches Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California

“The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.”

Men Different Motivational Universe Tree Feet Relation Connected Separation Complexity Branches Fascinating Often Is Differentiation

Book:The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel in my toes how its roots grip the earth.”

Feels Firsts Earth Tree Draws Roots Experience Apples Branches Toes Sap Apple Trees

Author:Frederick Franck

“Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.”

Important Cities Tree Land Industry Roots Branches Farmers Decline Agriculture

Author:Bernard Baruch

“Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.”

Remember Christ Tree Branches Remember You Remembers You Vines Stand Alone

Author:Robert Murray M'Cheyne

“I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards [...] and here was an almond tree in bloom before me: I must reach out and cut a flowering branch. For, by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired, whatever we have not irrigated with our blood to such a degree that it becomes strong enough to stride across the somber threshold of nonexistence.”

“You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.”

Tree Offers Rivers Winter Resistance Branches Yield Flood Trunks Swollen

Author:Sophocles

“I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then one day a fierce wind blows him off his branch and to the ground below. As his life slowly ebbs away, he looks up at the magnificent old tree that had been his home and realizes that he had never been on his own. His entire life he had been part of something bigger and more beautiful than anything he could have imagined. In a blinding flash, he awakens from the delusion of self. Then an arrogant, self-centered kid rakes him up and bags him.”

“It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog.”

Children Littles Country Lost Nations Sleep Break Tree Dog Legs Boredom Branches Toys Weariness Lost Dog Mulberry

Author:Sherwood Anderson

“All religions are branches of one big tree.”

Bigs Religion Tree Branches

Author:George Harrison

“Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.”

Tree Authority Corruption Spread Branches Chairs Length Dew Stools

Author:John Fletcher

“The real joy is in discovering that the twigs and branches of my practice are all firmly rooted in a single tree, even as time goes by and I become increasingly aware of the fleetingness of all things.”

Real Joy Practice Tree All Things Branches Discovering Rooted Twigs Time Goes By Real Joy

Author:James Nares

“Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins.”

Light Sides Morning Tree Enormous Branches Gray Veins Twigs Meticulous Bare Branches

Author:John Banville

“. . . . 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

“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

“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

“Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.”

Five Cutting Tree Lays Soldier Strikes Wit Branches Necks Courageous Resolution Customs Combat Deliberation Hydra

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment.”

May Littles Moments Tree Roots Originals Excitement Branches Poetry Is Very Deep Deep Roots

Author:Joan Larkin

“I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead.”

Feels Young Sun Tree Strange Roots Skins Ancient Forests Giants Branches Rough Smooth Unseen Intuitive Bark Sap Overhead Saplings Smooth Skin

Author:Jane Goodall

“Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.”

Evil Grows Tree Branches Malice Mischief

Author:Aaron Hill

“It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.”

Source: Greece and the Greeks: The Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and Its Islands

“Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.”

Tree Branches

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.”

Ifs Looks Self Tree Computer Method Productions Architecture Complexity Branches Repetition Leafs Variation Similarity Tree Branches

Author:Charles Jencks

“There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voices greeted his ear sweetly.”

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back.”

Boys Tree Hair Luck Miles Forests Branches Tree Branches

Book:Unearthly

Source: Unearthly

“Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.”

Trying Age Tree Fruit Branches Skepticism Bent Barren

Book:Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography: Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings

Source: Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography: Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings

“A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them.”