Best tree & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.”

Thinking Age Wanted Tree Producers Thirteen

Author:Jeff Lynne

“I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.”

Thinking Given Tree Hills Just Being Tree Hill

Author:Kate Voegele

“Are you a hoarder of more negative thoughts or positive ones? Whichever ones you hoard, grow into trees and then forests.”

Thinking Grows Tree Positive Thinking Negative Forests Negative Thoughts

Author:John Assaraf

“My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.”

Source: A Boy's Will

“The City's going to be very very beautiful! Its going to be like a beautiful beautiful park in some places, and there in the lower level where the river flows right through the City there's going to be these beautiful trees growing on both sides, fruit trees with 12 different kinds of fruit, a different kind every month, think of that!-And leaves that'll be able to heal the people outside the City that are still sin-sick, and sick of their disobediences and their rebellion against God. We're going to be able to take those leaves outside and heal them!”

“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

“I think every coach has to adapt to what they have, because they're what you get. You can't just go out to the player tree and pick all the great ones. That doesn't happen. You get a Barry Sanders every now and then. You get a Billy Sims every once in a while. And when you have it, you adapt to their strengths. Whoever comes in here and whoever has this job needs to adapt and will do that.”

Thinking Needs Happens Jobs Player Tree Picks Coaches Now And Then Adaptability Great Ones Sims

Author:Matt Millen

“Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.”

Thinking Men Way Want Giving May Form Energy Mistake Tree Dog Ultimate Horse Assuming Contrary One Way Welfare Damn Cosmos Rats Pessimist Mosquitoes Fungi Lice

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.”

Thinking Earth Tree Sweet Mouths Lovely Hungry Forests Breasts Breastfeeding Forests And Trees Nature's Beauty Arbor Day Inspirational Tree

Book:Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

Source: Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

“We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we dig a little coal. But when we run out of all these things, then we will find out just how good we really are.”

Thinking Want Littles Running House Fire Cutting Tree Consumerism Coal Overconsumption Build A Fire

Author:Will Rogers

“I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.”

Thinking Men Plans Tree Lovely

Author:Joyce Kilmer

“We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty tree root-bound or a little fishbowl keeps goldfish tiny, we have adapted, adjusted, and accommodated to a Lilliputian life. But place the same tree in an open field or the fish in a lake, and they will grow to hundreds of times their size. Unlike the tree or goldfish, you are not dependent on someone else to move you. You have the power to move yourself. You can step into a broader domain and grow to your full potential.”

Thinking Littles Moving Grows Steps Tree Fields Roots Bounds Size Fishes Tiny Dependent Lakes Domain Adapted Full Potential Goldfish Open Fields

Book:Why Your Life Sucks: And What You Can Do About It

Source: Why Your Life Sucks: And What You Can Do About It

“Do you think trees are the new birds? Don’t answer that right away.”

Thinking Answers Tree Bird

Author:Julie Klausner

“We [The Replacements] never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that a rock and roll band gets ripped off. We've tried to shake that tree a couple of times, but what can we do? You look back, when you're sort of idle in your middle years, and think, we should have made some money.”

Thinking Should Years Looks Made School Tree Middle Rocks Couple Band Economics Should Have Granted Shakes Idle Rock And Roll Back When Ripped Replacements

Author:Paul Westerberg

“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.”

“Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.”

Ifs Thinking Men Years Stills Earth Faces Water Common Sun Mystery Tree Green Shining Fingers Depth Lakes Quarters Mud Limbs Skeletons Muddy Sun Shines Slime Cypresses Cypress Trees

Author:Irvin S. Cobb

“I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it is a slowly growing tree with a kind of really solid heartwood. It has always been a form of sculpture, a symbol for this planet.”

Thinking Kind Form Growing Tree Planets Elements Concepts Symbols Sculpture Oaks Regeneration Concept Of Time Growing Tree

Author:Joseph Beuys

“Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.”

Thinking Fall Tree Fool Roof Doomsday

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.”

Thinking Should Book Use Turns Deals Cutting Tree Industry Amount Paper Impact Distance Marketing Enormous Traditional Electricity Ecological Retail

Author:William Gibson

“I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.”

Thinking Art Tree Rain Areas Clouds Giants Native Native American Pacific Pacific Northwest

Author:Kyle MacLachlan

“I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis becomes on the easy sell, as opposed to finding the best quality and writing and illustrating. There are exceptions (I like John Lithgow's stuff, for example), but a lot of it is putrid, and the best of it is often ghostwritten. Save the ink. Save the trees. Save our brain cells.”

Thinking Writing Easy Stuff Brain Quality Company Growing Tree Influence Example Findings Sells Marketing Cells Department Exception Trends Publishing Emphasis Ink Brain Cells Illustrating

Author:Jabari Asim

“As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.”

Thinking World Ideas War Able Tree Sea Modern Quiet Sitting Rivers Fishes Radio Boat Lakes Fishing Pool Modern World Aeroplanes Willow Trees

Book:Coming Up for Air

Source: Coming Up for Air

“The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive.”

Thinking Stills Important War One Thing Tree Worship Important Things Scripts Civil War

Author:Kim Novak

“I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here and a bird there." The beginning stage is always the sound. From that, slowly, stories come about based on what I'm reading or thinking at the time, but if I didn't have that sound I don't know what I would do.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Stories Reading Sound Tree Stage Painting Bird

Author:Ali Banisadr

“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

“Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.”

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.”

Thinking Sports Tree Football Brother My Favorite My Brother Climbing Climbing Trees Playing Outside

Author:Madeline Carroll

“change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.”

Thinking Doe Ideas Change Tree Bottom

Author:Gloria Steinem

“There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to have his strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He who plants a tree looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing could be less selfish than this.”

Thinking Looks Age Strong Simple Tree Son Sweet Taste Pure Plant Arguing Selfish Forests Generous Glorious Posterity Relish Cultivation Hardy Plant A Tree Vegetation

Author:Washington Irving

“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.”

“I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.”

Thinking Children Littles Ideas Fall Tree Grew Grew Up Falling In Love Eras New Life Palms Palm Trees

Author:Paul Theroux

“I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and helpless and struggling, shut into the body of a dying buzzing fly; I could wish him dead until he died.I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth. if he was under the ground I could walk over him stamping my feet.”

Source: Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches

“When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.”

Thinking Tree Needed Upset

Author:Ian Frazier

“I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since I have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a nonexistent tree I think I am entitled to speak for the field mouse.”

Thinking Speak My Own Rooms Effort Saws Tree Fields Flower Thousand Remembered Pot Shade Portions Episodes Entitled Mice Living Room Guise

Author:Loren Eiseley

“We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are neither god nor demon; who are you, then, to make slaves? Orou! You understand the language of these men, tell us all, as you have told me, what they have written on this sheet of metal: This country is ours. This country yours? And why? Because you have walked thereon? If a Tahitian landed one day on your shores, and scratched on one of your rocks or on the bark of your trees: This country belongs to the people of Tahiti - what would you think?”

People Ifs Thinking Men Country Language Written Tree Atheism Rocks One Day Slavery Slave Deeds Positive Atheism Our Country Titles Demon Shore Our Future Metals Sheets Bark Tahiti

Author:Denis Diderot

“For a long time humans probably were in touch on a deeper level with the depths of their being, unconsciously so, the same way an animal or a tree is. Gradually, though, more and more of their identity went into the movement of thought. They identified more and more with the movement of thinking.”

Thinking Way Humans Long Animal Levels Tree Movement Identity Long Time Depth Deeper

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Sometimes [people] say the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. In my case, I am pretty fortunate. [ My kids]'re pretty balanced, cool kids, going through pretty much the same thing all the other kids go through. There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do. I don't think they know a lot about what I do, other than that I am in this crazy band, Mötley Crüe.”

People Thinking Knows Sometimes Kids Fall Parent Can Do Cases Tree Crazy Band Unique Fortunate Apples Balanced Do The Best I Am Pretty Cool Kid

Author:Nikki Sixx

“The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.”

Thinking Giving Helping Language Grows Tree Personality Bears Habit Speech Asking Distance Forests Reserves Exalted Inexorable Interchange

Book:The Song of the Lark

Source: The Song of the Lark

“The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are.”

Thinking Ends Asks Tree Journey Fronts Obstacles Woods Bars Passages Crash Tempest

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.”

Thinking Country Turns Fall Given Fire Tree Promise Creating Capable Europe Seasons Brown Autumn Yellow Continents Frost Creating Beauty Portents

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.”

Thinking Looks Kind Stills Tree Wind Kings Forests Chairs Grandmother Old Trees Rocking Chairs Dozing

Author:Billy Wilder

“After writing several Nutbrown Hare stories, I thought: what might happen when a little hare begins to explore the space around him? (Think of rivers, mountains, fields and trees!) Will there be fun? Oh yes. Will there be trouble ahead? Could be. For you, here are some of the adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare.”

Thinking Writing Littles Stories Might Happens Fun Space Trouble Tree Fields Adventure Mountain Rivers Hares

Author:Sam McBratney

“Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Should Wells Looks Light Care Wanted Lying Hope Stars Causes Darkness Tree Crazy Dangerous Example Discovery Eternity Clouds Just One If I Could Bud

Author:Garrett Fort

“The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations in the social sciences are mere pathways which lead through a riotous forest of individual trees, each a species unto itself. The social scientist who loses this sense of the essential individuality and uniqueness of each case is all too likely to make a solemn scientific ass of himself, especially if he thinks that his faceless generalizations are the equivalents of the rich vareity of the world.”

“Along a stream that raced and ran Through tangled trees and over stones, That long had heard the pipes o' Pan And shared the joys that nature owns, I met a fellow fisherman, Who greeted me in cheerful tones. . . . . Foes think the bad in him they've guessed And prate about the wrong they scan; Friends that have seen him at his best Believe they know his every plan; I know him better than the rest, I know him as a fisherman.”

Thinking Knows Believe Long Joy Plans Heard Tree Mets Stones Fellows Ran Tone Streams Fishing Cheerful Foe Pipe Fisherman Tangled Best Believe

Author:Edgar Guest

“We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.”

Source: Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

“I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.”

Thinking Important Tree Musician Albums Sunset Trust Others

Author:John Darnielle

“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”

Thinking Men Should Looks Art Sometimes Problem Moving Used Simple Tree Crazy Fool Genius Smart Opposites Bigger Intelligent Complexes Solve Branches Art And Science Hazy Same Thinking

Author:Albert Einstein

“Weird, isn't it Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos.”

Thinking Light Song Lost Sound Morning Alive Air Tree Streets Cold One Day Spring Wake Up Rose Winter Hills Bites Mud Freeze Cherries Robins Tick Cherry Trees Bingo Morning Air Cold Morning

Author:Andrew Schneider

“Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.”

Thinking Political Water Air Tree Clean Environmental Radical Corporate Pollution Tanks Phony Environmentalist Clean Air Toady

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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