Tree Quotes - Page 91

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

The man in the street is always a stranger.

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

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.

The fruits of the tree of Knowledge are various; he must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.

The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.

I thought of my father's wisdom, as though it were buried in a box under a tree. As in the old song - a gold box with a silver pin. Some day I should be grown up, and I should dig up the box and turn the pin.

I was rather shaken by all the green trees. I always am. It gets me. I don't want to be funny about it but I am. I loved seeing all the westerns, but I had asthma and couldn't go anywhere, but I loved watching them in Technicolor and seeing the cowboys and the landscapes of Monument Valley and you'd see the forests of the Anthony Mann films and think, 'wow, that's fantastic', but I could never go there!

If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

I don't think that any law enforcement got in trouble for the event in Eugene where police sprayed the tree-sitters who were protesting the cutting of the trees for the parking garage.

Please, shun darkness, and like trees, always seek to grow toward the light.

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

He left Himmel Street wearing his hangover and a suit.

Do you know why the leaves change colour?... Before a tree sheds a leaf it pumps it full of all the poison it can't rid itself of otherwise. That red there--that's a man's skin blotching with burst veins after an assassin spikes his last meal with roto-weed. The poison spreading through him before he dies.

The horse could not do without Manhattan. It drew him like a magnet, like a vacuum, like oats, or a mare, or an open, never-ending, tree-lined road.

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and prepares oneself - it is extraordinarily brave. Because when it comes to certain human miseries, the only witnesses should be the pavement and maybe the trees. (Gareth van Meer)

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.

A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like rings on a tree.

i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people

We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees.

Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.

[On women getting the vote:] The newspapers, poor dears, looked of course for something very spectacular. But then newspapers are always apt to be more interested in phenomena like meteors than in the slow growth of a mighty tree. Wait ten years, and the politicians will one day wake up and say, 'Look who's here!

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.