Best tree & trunks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree.”

Way Heart Sound Tree Sea Singing Ears Hearing Lovely Forests Rough Shells Bark Trunks Sap Sea Shell

Book:A Stone for a Pillow

Source: A Stone for a Pillow

“In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.”

Hands Together White Break Tree Wave Weather Sand March Weed Fierce Trunks Foam Tree Trunks

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.”

Stills Science Practice Environment Tree Huge Walking Bigger Sticks Environmental Ran Stakes Living Things Resent Vines Trunks Walking Sticks

Author:Gifford Pinchot

“If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.”

Ifs Wells Philosophy Use Together Doors Tree Feet Industry Please Unnoticed Trunks Philosophy Of Education

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“All we have observed is where moths do not spend the day. In 25 years we have found only two betularia on the tree trunks or walls adjacent to our traps (one on an appropriate background and one not), and none elsewhere”

Years Two Found Tree Wall Backgrounds Appropriate Elsewhere Traps Trunks Moths Tree Trunks

Author:Cyril Clarke

“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

“The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.”

Bigs Silence Too Much Tree Grew Healthy England Woods Alleys Trunks New England

Book:The Classic Horror Stories

Source: The Classic Horror Stories

“Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.”

Hands Tree Shots Fingers Wounds Bunch Torn Trunks Cannons Splinters

Book:Civil War Stories

Source: Civil War Stories

“The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested, while we looked up in wonder through the great boughs that half hid and half revealed the sky. Some of the boughs were already decaying, so that perhaps we began to see a little more of the sky than our elders; but the tree was sound at its heart.”

Heart Children Littles Religion Father Sound Half Wonder Tree Sky Shadow Elders Our Father Trunks

Author:Lucy Larcom

“Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing and exchanging ideas. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.”

Mind Believe Ideas Age Courses I Believe Growth Friendship Tree Activity Essentials Rings Evolve Expanding Hormones Trunks Exchanging Growth Hormones Exchanging Ideas

Author:Mary McCarthy

“We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.”

Use Tree Fallen Hollow Oaks Beam Vigor Trunks Sap

Author:Sylvia Pankhurst

“Association is the delight of the heart, not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds, glimmering trunks of trees, and wavering tints upon the grass, seems scarcely capable of embellishment. But if in this calm and beautiful glow the chime of a distant bell steal over the fields, the bosom heaves with the sensation that Dante so tenderly describes.”

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“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

“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

“In felling a tree we should cut into the trunk of it to the very heart, and then leave it standing so that the sap may drain out drop by drop throughout the whole of it... Then and not till then, the tree being drained dry and the sap no longer dripping, let it be felled and it will be in the highest state of usefulness.”

Should Heart May States Whole Cutting Tree Highest Standing Dry Drains Usefulness Trunks Sap Drained Dripping

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could have been written by that far off man who first saw a tree trunk roll and made a wheel and cart and harnessed in his mare and cracked his whip and drove away to disappear beyond the hill! Or that first man who made a boat and raised a sail and disappeared hull down to unknown shores!”

“The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees.”

“Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.”

Men Earth Imagination Moral Tree Bears Roots Instinct Fruit Intellect Branches True Nature Trunks Moral Life

Author:Felix Adler

“From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.”

Doe Eye Artist Force Vision Tree Position Standing Flow Roots Depth Currents Humble Command His Eyes Crowns Overwhelmed Transmit Trunks Sap

Author:Paul Klee

“Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!”

Tree Speed Holes Repeats Dull Trunks Beaks Tree Trunks Woodpeckers

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Turn off your computer and go out of doors. Dig a large enough hole to transplant a mature apple tree. Nurture the tree, feed it, coddle it so that its fruit will be ample, bright and firm. Practice open-hand strikes against the rough bark of the trunk until it's time to harvest. Choose the champion of your apple crop, pluck it from the tree, and beat yourself about the face and tits with it until your mettle will suffice.”

Enough Hands Faces Turns Practice Doors Tree Computer Beats Fruit Strikes Holes Firm Champion Apples Rough Mature Nurture Harvest Crops Bark Trunks Turn Off Pluck Transplants Apple Trees Mettle

Author:Nick Offerman

“What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen... and you will hear the creaking.”

Two Moments Seems Might Lasts Break Forever Tree Appearance Storm Branches Empires Rotten Blast Trunks Tree Trunks

Book:Foundation Trilogy

Source: Foundation Trilogy

“We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that's why we should always be in contact with Him, as the trunk from the root. Because the stream dries up when it is separated from the spring and the tree dies when is uprooted.”

Should Dies Tree Spring Roots Contact Streams Trunks

Author:Pythagoras

“Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree.”

World Giving Purpose Tree This World Roots Branches Giving Back Trunks

Author:Nick Vujicic

“After I did the drawings of trees combining them with words, I started doing - I did that for a very short time. Then it kind of - that sort of evolved into just showing the branches of a tree coming down into the trunk and then going into the root system. So I showed both the branches and the roots of a tree, which were about equal. There is as much going on under the ground as is going on above the ground, which you can see.”

Kind Tree Equal Roots Drawing Branches Short Time Trunks Combining

Author:Robert Barry

“Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.”

Mean Enough Strong Break Support Seeing Tree Balance Circumstances Roots Faster Continuing Flexible Strong Enough Trunks Support Me Pushovers

Author:Brenda Strong

“I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.”

Past Night Stars Tree Flower Fine Lays Branches Benches Trunks

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe

“Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.”

Strong Beauty Tree Roots Renewal Trunks Liturgy Strong Roots

Author:Pope Paul VI

“Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.”

Tree Focused Grounded Trunks

Author:Orlando Bloom

“I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”

Would Be Heaven Black White Tree Bears Be Good Snow Branches Climbs Climbing Coming Back Trunks Snow White Tree Branches Climbing Trees Birch Trees

Author:Robert Frost

“To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I would rather not go on.”

Source: Life of Pi

“For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.”

Should Littles Done Enough Lying Tree Appearance Snow Rolling Trunks Tree Trunks

Book:The Complete Stories

Source: The Complete Stories

“Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”

May Law Dies Leadership Break Tree Sky Packs Jungle Trunks Girdles Tree Trunks Creepers Packs Of Wolves Wolf Packs

Author:Rudyard Kipling

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