Best tree & roots Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)

“So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.”

Mother Tree Roots Fraud Woe Snakes Prohibition Paradise Lost Book 9 Paradise Lost Book 1

Book:Paradise lost

Source: Paradise lost

“Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.”

Grows Tree Wind Roots Palms Palm Trees Zion

Book:Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition

Source: Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition

“I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel: I am the impact of the bee Upon the blossom; in the tree I am the sap that shall reveal The leaf, the bloom that flows and flutes Up from the darkness through its roots.”

Feels Nature Darkness Tree Flow Roots Impact Bees Leafs Sap Flutes

Author:Madison Cawein

“The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.”

“The effect of the corporation, under the prevailing policy of the free, go-as-you-please method of organization and management, has been to drive the bulk of our people, other than farmers, out of property ownership; and, if allowed to go on as present, it will keep them out... The paramount problem is not how to stop the growth of property, and the building up of wealth, but how to manage it so that every species of property, like a healthy growing tree will spread its roots deeply and widely in the soil of a popular proprietorship.”

“I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.”

Race Tree Roots My Family Streams Trout

Book:Locusts and Wild Honey

Source: Locusts and Wild Honey

“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

“Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application; which a discreet man may do well; but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. First, in your sermons use your logic, and then your rhetoric; rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root.”

Men Firsts Wells May Persons Use Tree Holy Roots Logic Scripture Ghost Application Preaching Rhetoric Sermons Holy Ghost Discreet

Author:John Selden

“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

“Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy.”

Heart Littles Real Dark Tree Tears Rain Roots Substance Fancy Soil Misanthropy Vapor Pine Trees Rift

Book:Life and books, or Records of thought and reading

Source: Life and books, or Records of thought and reading

“Be mine that silent calm repast, A conscience cheerful to the last: That tree which bears immortal fruit, Without a canker at the root; That friend which never fails the just, When other friends desert their trust.”

Lasts Failing Tree Mines Bears Conscience Roots Silent Fruit Calm Desert Immortal Cheerful

Book:The Poems of Cooper, and Cotton

Source: The Poems of Cooper, and Cotton

“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

“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

“I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.”

World Way Moral Steps Gone Path Tree Roots Down And Forests Lions New World Pioneers Old Trees

Book:America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer

Source: America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer

“See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.”

Looks Heart Religion Powerful Cutting Tree Morality Fairs Roots Skins Lays Core Command Apples Knives Pruning

Author:Nathaniel Culverwell

“The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.”

World Way War Reason Tree Blood Movement Roots War Of The Worlds Our Time Rising Remarkable World War Ii World War I Twisted Pulse Sap Upheaval Stampede

Author:Anne O'Hare McCormick

“The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.”

World Age Young Greater Tree Roots Old Age Attachment Palms Exceed Palm Trees Young Ones

Author:Saib Tabrizi

“In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground, olive trees; but three tenses dizzy my consciousness: my present, the time of Jesus, and that of the photographer, all this under the instance of 'reality' - and no longer through the elaborations of the text, whether fictional or poetic, which itself is never credible down to the root.”

Reality Three Jesus Consciousness Tree Roots Photographer Instance Poetic August Jerusalem Credible Olives Dizzy Olive Trees

Author:Roland Barthes

“In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.”

Art Care Tree Roots Aids Height Charm Great Art Trunks

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Greenpeace protesters who lived on the trees right above the planned radar location (Google Maps) and who eat environmentally friendly roots, insect, excrements, and dirt.”

Tree Roots Friendly Maps Google Dirt Location Insects Radar Greenpeace Environmentally Friendly Google Maps

Author:Lubos Motl

“A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has lost his country, his friends, his earthly belongings. He is a stranger, sick at heart. He is suspicious; he feels misunderstood. If people smile, he thinks they ridicule him; if they look serious, he thinks they don't like him. He is a full-grown tree in the dangerous process of being transplanted, with the chance of possibly not being able to take root in the new soil.”

“It seems that every life form on this planet strives toward its maximum potential... except human beings. A tree does not grow to half its potential size and then say, "l guess that will do." A tree will drive its roots as deep as possible. It will soak up as much nourishment as it can, stretch as high and as wide as nature will allow, and then look down as if to remind us of how much each of us could become if we would only do all that we can.”

Ifs Humans Looks Doe Seems Form Grows Human Beings Half Tree Planets Roots Strive Size Wide Strife Maximum Nourishment Maximum Potential

Author:Jim Rohn

“Trees have roots, Jews have legs.”

Tree Roots Jew Legs

Author:Isaac Deutscher

“The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.”

Way Past Tree Roots Insight Woods Sunshine Listeners Past Life Gleam

Author:James F. Cooper

“The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.”

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“When God gives a promise, He always tries our faith. Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind, so faith takes a firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.”

Giving Trying Struggle Tree Wind Promise Roots Appearance Adverse Contending

Book:Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry

Source: Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry

“Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the roots of orchids, jaguars walked the river's edge; around them eight hundred species of trees stood, more than are native to all of North America; and a thousand species of butterflies, 6 percent of the entire world fauna, waited for the dawn.”

World America Tree Thousand Percent Hundred Rivers Roots Species Fruit Edges Eight Dawn Native Butterfly Crowns Bats Palms Flew Spears North America Biodiversity Orchids Ambush Vipers Jaguars

Author:E. O. Wilson

“On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm of a female hand by the crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purification for the Temple, and have then been carried off highly charged with saponaceous electricity, to be steamed like a potato in the unventilated breath of the powerful Boanerges Boiler and his congregation, until what small mind I had, was quite steamed out of me”

Source: Novels

“Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.”

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].”

Nature Secret Mystery Tree Roots Profound Absurd Existential Delirium

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.”

Tree Roots Depth Technique Compare Multitudes Arithmetic Theorems

Author:Gottlob Frege

“When you look at what is happening to our world-and it is hard to look at what's happening to our water, our air, our trees, our fellow species-it becomes clear that unless you have some roots in a spiritual practice that holds life sacred and encourages joyful communion with all your fellow beings, facing the enormous challenges ahead becomes nearly impossible.”