Best tree & light Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds... Lonely trees are not lonely!”

Light Song Company Tree Wind Moon Eternal Bird Shadow Lonely Clouds Lonely Trees

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.”

“If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.”

Ifs Light Wish Sun Rights Tree Flower Forests Trust In God Perfume Commitment To God

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.”

Ifs Important Light Felt Space Tree Fronts Movement Objects Shapes Mountain Machines Cameras Photographer Being True Grass Texture

Author:Paul Strand

“The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.”

Light Tree Bird Shock Smallest Fiber

Book:LEW WALLACE Premium Collection: Historical Novels, Poetry & Plays (Illustrated): Ben-Hur, The Fair God, The Prince of India, The Wooing of Malkatoon & Commodus

Source: LEW WALLACE Premium Collection: Historical Novels, Poetry & Plays (Illustrated): Ben-Hur, The Fair God, The Prince of India, The Wooing of Malkatoon & Commodus

“I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canva... Within me sounded the memory of early evening in Moscow, before my eyes was the strong, colour-saturated scale of the Munich light and atmosphere, which thundered deeply in the shadows.”

Littles Light Eye House Strong Memories Tree Shadow Scales Spots Evening Atmosphere Colour Canvas Moscow Stripes Saturated Munich

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“be the mountain / be the ocean / be the tree / be happy / be the light / be the shadow / be the rain / be you / be”

Light Tree Mountain Ocean Shadow Rain Be You

Book:The Girl with Nine Toes: A Story about Personal Growth

Source: The Girl with Nine Toes: A Story about Personal Growth

“A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad On Solitary Fields That Science cannot overtake But Human Nature feels. It waits upon the Lawn, It shows the furthest Tree Upon the furthest Slope you know It almost speaks to you. Then as Horizons step Or Noons report away Without the Formula of sound It passes and we stay - A quality of loss Affecting our Content As Trade had suddenly encroached Upon a Sacrament.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity.”

Heart Light Tree Blood Safe Spring Bones Breasts Veins Deities Sap Marrow

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was] not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.”

Art Matter Light House Existence Tree Subjects Ought Mountain Paint Philosopher Abstract Towers Abstraction Subject Matter Spotlight

Author:Willem de Kooning

“Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?" Or is it possible for the lamp to say, "I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people"? Or can a tree say, "I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? These are images of what love is about.”

People Giving Light Evil Love Is Rooms Tree Rose Smell Shade Good People Lamps Fragrance Evil People

Book:Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“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

“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.”

“... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping hare is caught in a marble panel.) A glaze is put over life. There is no flaw, no crack in the surface; a still reservoir, no ripple on its face. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. The waterfalls seemed frozen solid; the tops of the trees were still; the river hardly stirred, a serpent gently moving under its shimmering skin.”

“Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.”

Shows Light Tree Highest Rounds Ruins Hills Covered Columns Oaks Ridges

Book:The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals

Source: The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals

“A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.”

Humans Light Water Animal Tree Wind Bird Flow Breathing Stopping Insects Housing Obstruction

Book:Islands, the Universe, Home: Essays

Source: Islands, the Universe, Home: Essays

“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

“if there ever was a time for sentimentality and traditional merrymaking, one that has transcended religious orientation, Christmas must be that time. The effect seems salutary: even people who ordinarily are as colorful and gay as groundworms, who would dare not consider a flamboyant gesture, hang long strings of brightly colored lights around their houses, trim Christmas trees, and talk to strangers.”

People Ifs Long Light Seems House Religious Tree Effects Gay Dare Stranger Christmas Traditional Strings Gestures Orientation Colorful Sentimentality Christmas Tree Flamboyant

Book:The Vegetarian Epicure

Source: The Vegetarian Epicure

“Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures continuously since 1995 until the end of Polaroid film. I'm taking very few pictures nowadays because I have very little film left, most of it expired.”

Littles Stills Ends Light Film Left Tree Inspire Architecture Graves Statues Taking Pictures Expired Polaroids

Author:Patti Smith

“The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.”

Way Years Humans Heart Two Light Imagination Human Beings Views Four Tree Skills Normal Survival Beats Seasons Possession Desert Faster Rely Sand Pace Palms Gleam Heart Beat Palm Trees

Book:Women of Sand and Myrrh

Source: Women of Sand and Myrrh

“The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.”

Ifs World Looks Whole Light Dark Mystery Tree Grew Areas Whole World Forests Evening Christmas Tree Best Christmas

Author:Andy Rooney

“I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.”

Light Mother Father House Lost Tree Grew Grew Up Singing Tiny Golden Dawn Piano Palestinian Showers Chords House Music Golden Light Tiny Houses

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... its a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.”

Years Littles Light Waiting Morning Tree Sweet Tradition My Family Catholic Decorating Christmas Morning

Author:Malaika Arora Khan

“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].

“O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee.”