Tree Quotes - Page 61

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.

When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks. Familiarizing yourself in this way with the subject, you will get a better concept of the thing and not a visual and false snapshot.

You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living things. A tree seldom if ever encroaches upon the liberty of another tree. It never wastes its growth in unnecessary twistings.

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

What do you say to a guy that says a tree's sexy.

I mean 'One Tree Hill' had some rabid fans - you'd be surprised - they're almost in a class of their own.

Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree.

Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.

To me, everything is endless variations on other things. Like waves in the ocean. They continue to turn over on each other, and they're all slightly different. I don't know if originality is possible. Is it even necessary? Because everything is different than what came before, but it's all branches from the same tree. Originality is overrated, but what you do with things is always different.

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it.

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.

Chopped down the tree of peace, but it will grow again.

We recived our colouring from the Norsemen,hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees.We are the ones who sacked Rome.Fear only feeble old age and death in bed.Don't forget who you are.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

The real joy is in discovering that the twigs and branches of my practice are all firmly rooted in a single tree, even as time goes by and I become increasingly aware of the fleetingness of all things.

They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.

Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

The dignity of self is greatly enhanced by looking upward in the search for holiness. Like the giant trees, we should reach up for the light. The most important source of light we can come to know is the gift of the Holy Ghost. It is the source of inner strength and peace.