Tree Quotes - Page 21

It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.

Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are right, it naturally emerges.

I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better.

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.

Like a tree that grows stronger with more branches and roots, you need to find more and more ways to be inspired.

If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on stone monuments, but would instead place the naked body in the earth and plant a tree above the silent heart.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.

somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

You have to be open to change. I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, You know, they're right, that's better. Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

There is no stranger under the cherry tree.

In the early days it was fun to fly. You could soar over rooftops and trees, or drop down to meet a passing train and wave at the engineer. The whole sky belonged to you. now there are so many regulations. The sky is crowded. All the fun is gone.