Tree Quotes - page 4

What is a human being, then?" ... "A seed." "A ... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree. (David Zindell)
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree. View quote
Leonard Cohen
.. the word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers.... one of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'....(abstraction was) not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have. View quote
Willem de Kooning
To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock the holly whistles as it battles with itself the ash hisses amid its quiverings the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall. View quote
Thomas Hardy
I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. View quote
Sylvia Plath
When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman? View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree. View quote
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Oh leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree! View quote
Thomas Campbell
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? View quote
John Donne
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under a tree; you watch and wait. At first there is nothing much to be seen. Nature looks like a whitish canvas with a few broad outlines faintly sketched in; all is misty, everything quivers in the cool dawn breeze. The sky lights up. The sun has not yet burst through the gauze veil that hides the meadow, the little valley, the hill on the horizon... Ah, a first ray of sunshine! (Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot)
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it is a slowly growing tree with a kind of really solid heartwood. It has always been a form of sculpture, a symbol for this planet. View quote
Joseph Beuys
When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun. View quote
Chinua Achebe
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree - the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men. View quote
Chinua Achebe
The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven. View quote
Jack Kerouac
I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree. View quote
Colin Firth
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. View quote
Ezra Pound
Just as the twig is bent the tree is inclined. View quote
Alexander Pope
A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first. View quote
Robert Jordan
Christmas is here Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill. Little care we Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That's the feeling. (T. E. Lawrence)
All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree - not of a cloud. View quote
John Ruskin
The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion of organic diversity in our tough and constantly stressful world. And if we do not grasp the fundamental nature of branching as the key to life's passage across the geological stage, we will never understand evolution aright. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material. View quote
Ramakrishna
I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree. View quote
Margaret Atwood