Tree Quotes - Page 39

Yes, Yes Yall, You know we talkin it all see how we bringing the street corner to Cargenie hall

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

I'm like the annoying guy in the street.

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.

When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

Lots and lots of trees together, equals big trees!

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as "rank presumption".

Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.

The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.

On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered; Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee, Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree.

The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

There are no heroes; we are all heroes on the street.

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.

O happy, golden age! Not for that rivers ran With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees