Tree Quotes - Page 11

The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race

Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.

To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Yosemite Park... None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in one place like a tree.

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

old pear tree starlings announce harvest time

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.

It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer.

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

You can't run away from yourself

Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.

I love a tree more than a man.