Tree Quotes:

Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

topic: Tree, Twigs, Bent

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

topic: Giving, Tree, Liberty

A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

topic: Nature, Tree, Robes, Coronation

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

topic: Tree, Fruit, Pears

- Alexander Smith

source: Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.258

topic: Men, Tree, Doe, Plant A Tree, Plants And Trees

Trees are your best antiques

- Alexander Smith

topic: Tree, Antiques, Environment

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Flower, Tree, Forsake

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

- Alfred Austin

source: Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

topic: Air, Poetry, Tree

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways

- Alfred Russel Wallace

source: Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.85, Verso

topic: Law, Tree, Ignorant

People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?

- Alice Hoffman

topic: People, Tree, World, Sidewalk

He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.

- Alice Walker

topic: Children, Men, Tree, Peeking

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

- Alice Walker

source: Alice Walker (1997). “Possessing the Secret of Joy”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

topic: Funny, Tree, Forests

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

- Alicia Silverstone

topic: School, Years, Tree

Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape,

- Alison Gopnik

topic: Giving, Tree, Brain, Prunes

I do not expect anyone will ever have the opportunity of constructing another course like Cypress Point, as I do not suppose anywhere in the world is there such a glorious combination of rocky coast, sand dunes, pine woods and cypress trees.

- Alister MacKenzie

topic: Opportunity, Tree, World, Cypresses, Cypress Trees

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

- Alla Nazimova

topic: Character, Play, Tree

Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Hands, Tree, Splinters, Trunks

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Spring, Tree, Leaving, Cashiers, Funny Spring

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Tree, Culture, Fruit, Fruit Trees

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

- Amelia Earhart

topic: Airplane, Sky, Tree, Pilots And Flying, Helicopters

Enquire: 'Who am I?' and you will find the answer. Look at a tree: from one seed arises a huge tree; from it comes numerous seeds, each one of which in its turn grows into a tree. No two fruits are alike. Yet it is one life that throbs in every particle of the tree. So, it is the same Atman everywhere.

- Anandamayi Ma

topic: Two, Tree, Soul, Atman

The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree

- Anchee Min

source: Anchee Min (2006). “Empress Orchid”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Tree, Sun

That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments.

- Anders Fogh Rasmussen

source: "British guns blazing as EU summit opens" by Andrew Rettman, euobserver.com. June 21, 2007.

topic: People, Tree, Needs, Need Help

Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.

- Andrea Gibson

topic: Inspirational, Tree, Poetry

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.

- Andrew Marvell

source: 'The Garden' (1681) st. 1

topic: Winning, Men, Tree, Incessant, Upbraid

Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.

- Andrew Marvell

source: "The Garden" l. 47 (1681)

topic: Tree, Green, Shade, Resemblance

How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.

- Andrew Marvell

topic: Winning, Men, Tree

It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees...

- Andrew of Crete

topic: Feet, Tree, Coats, Lifeless

With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Watercolour perfectly expresses the free side of my nature.

- Andrew Wyeth

topic: Ice, Snow, Tree, Windowpane

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.

- Andy Couturier

topic: Hands, Worry, Tree

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

- Andy Pick

topic: Team, Tree, One Day, Cup Finals

The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Dark, Light, Tree, Christmas Tree

A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Beautiful, Tree, Way

No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Cutting, Tree, Matter, Willow Trees

Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Children, Tree, Upset, Vegetation, Unborn Child

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

- Anna Freud

topic: Yesterday, Space, Tree, Empty Space

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.

- Anna Sewell

source: Anna Sewell (2012). “Black Beauty”, p.9, Courier Corporation

topic: Book, Water, Tree, Clear Water, Water Lily

My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.

- Anna Sewell

source: Anna Sewell (2012). “Black Beauty”, p.172, Courier Corporation

topic: Home, Apples, Tree, Orchard, Apple Trees

When I stepped away from the white pine, I had the definite feeling that we had exchanged some form of life energy. ... Clearly white pines and I are on the same wavelength. What I give back to the trees I cannot imagine. I hope they receive something, because trees are among my closest friends.

- Anne LaBastille

topic: White, Giving, Tree, Wavelength, Closest Friends

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Tree, Unity, Needs, Redwoods

Trees for example, carry the memory of rainfal. In their rings we read ancient weather - storms, sunlight and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries. A forest shares a history which each tree remembers even after it has been felled.

- Anne Michaels

source: Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.123, A&C Black

topic: Memories, Weather, Tree

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...

- Annie Dillard

source: "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek". Book by Annie Dillard, 1974.

topic: Beautiful, Air, Tree, Fallen World, Getting Along

Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Blessed, Bird, Tree

It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.

- Anthony Kiedis

topic: Dog, Eye, Tree, Fence Post, Tree Branches

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

topic: Winning, Sky, Tree, Dead Trees, Tree Of Life

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

topic: Tree, Too Late, May, Temporary Defeat

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

topic: Water, Drunk, Tree, Minerals

Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.

topic: Winning, Sky, Tree

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Thinking, Wind, Tree

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

- Anton Szandor LaVey

topic: Tree, Doe, Hanging On

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

- Aristippus

topic: Education, Tree, Fruit

I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.

- Art Spiegelman

topic: Tree, Boulders, Natural, Natural Phenomena

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

- Arthur Miller

topic: Apples, Tree, Stuck, Tree Of Knowledge, Apple Trees

Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.

- Ashley Rickards

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Writing, Tree, Hills, Tree Hill

I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing in Converse and ripped jeans and hoodies. On 'Awkward', it manifests in how I speak.

- Ashley Rickards

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Character, Jeans, Tree, Hoodies, Ripped Jeans

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Feet, Bird, Tree

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Men, Moon, Tree

Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools.

- Auguste Rodin

topic: School, Clouds, Tree

Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. "Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life." "Your strength?" "Your work." He tossed the branch aside. "The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . .

- Ayn Rand

topic: Hands, Tree, Meaning Of Life, Thick, Gail

Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Flower, Roots, Tree, Fragrant Flowers

The evocative power of the drum can be compared to the Trinity. The drum's frame comes from the trunk of a tree, and that tree has a spirit. It is not dead wood. There is also spirit in the animal skin. If there wasn't, it would not produce sound. Those, plus the spirit of the person playing become an irresistible force.

- Babatunde Olatunji

topic: Animal, Tree, Skins, Irresistible Force

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

- Bal Gangadhar Tilak

topic: Inspiring, Tree, Branches, Independence And Freedom, India Independence Day

Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit.

- Baldassare Castiglione

topic: Tree, Soul, Degrees, Outward Beauty, Tokens

These trees and these old people have one thing in common - they're both going in the ground soon!

- Bam Margera

topic: Reality, People, Tree

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

- Barbara G. Walker

topic: Tree, Males, Crosses, Tree Of Life

In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled and examined the pink-skinned baby birds, he popped one of them into his mouth like a jujube. It seemed to please him a lot. He offered a baby bird to me, pantomiming that I should eat it. I understood perfectly well what he meant, but I refused. He did not seem disappointed to have to eat the whole brood himself.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Baby, Bird, Tree

If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

- Barbara Walters

topic: Tree, Kind, Drop Dead Gorgeous

I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'

- Bas Rutten

topic: Home, Tree, Parent

Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,-- Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,-- Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.

- Bayard Taylor

topic: Blue, Color, Tree, Asters, Tree Tops

She'll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!" Patch grinned, "I can fly.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: Tree, Patches, Kill Me, Patch And Nora, Hush Hush

Something doesn't look right," Vee said. "Is the tire supposed to look like that?" I banged my head against the nearest tree trunk. "So we've got a flat," Vee said. "What now?

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: Tree, Looks, Tire, Tree Trunks

Patch backed me into a tree and kissed me, hard. I regained my breath. "Boys take not everywhere: That was a kiss.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: Kissing, Boys, Tree

One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.

- Bel Kaufman

source: Bel Kaufman (1964). “Up the Down Stair Case”

topic: Dream, School, Tree

What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.

- Ben Aaronovitch

topic: Expression, Years, Tree, Swordsman, Monasteries

Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.

- Ben Aaronovitch

topic: Garden, Tree, Parks, Modern Architecture, Landscaping

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: â€œAdventures are to the adventurous.â€

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Adventure, Tree, Fruit, Tree Of Knowledge

There was a man that hated his footprints and his shadow, so one day he thought that if he ran fast enough, his footprints and shadow would not be able to follow him and then he never ever had to look at them again. He ran and he ran as fast as he could, but the shadow and the footprints had no problems keeping up to him. And he ran even faster and all of a sudden he fell dead to the ground. But if he been standing still there hadn't been any footprints and if he had been resting under a tree his shadow had been swallowed of the trees shadow.

- Benjamin Hoff

topic: Men, Tree, Shadow, Standing Still

A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.

- Benvenuto Cellini

source: 1547 Letter to Benedetto Varchi.

topic: Men, Differences, Tree

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

- Bernard of Clairvaux

topic: Learning, Tree, Vines

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.

- Bernard of Clairvaux

topic: Book, Wind, Tree

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

- Berthe Morisot

source: Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot (1995). “Berthe Morisot”, p.199, Univ of California Press

topic: Dream, Orange, Tree, Orange Trees, Botticelli

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

- Bertolt Brecht

topic: Silence, Tree, Kind

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

- Bertrand Barere

source: Speech in the Convention Nationale (16 January 1793), Archives Parliamentaires de 1787 à 1860, vol. 57, p. 368, 1900.

topic: Blood, Tyrants, Tree

L'arbre de la libertÃ© croÃ®t lorsqu'il est arrosÃ© du sang de toute espÃ¨ce de tyrans (The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants),

- Bertrand Barere

topic: Blood, Tyrants, Tree

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.175, Routledge

topic: Love, Roots, Tree

Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

- Beth Kephart

topic: Falling In Love, Tree, Firsts

No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.

- Betty Smith

topic: Sky, People, Tree, Tenements

If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can't see how beautiful it really is.

- Betty Smith

topic: Beautiful, Thinking, Tree

But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

- Betty Smith

topic: Men, Tree, Trying, Stumps, Bonfire

H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are no slouches, either. They're spannered, rat-arsed, cabbaged, and hammered; ruined, legless, scorched, and blottoed; or simply trolleyed or sloshed. In Kerry, you're said to be flamin'; in Waterford, you're in the horrors; and in Cavan, you've gone baloobas, a tough one to wrap your tongue around if you ARE baloobas. In Donegal, you're steamin', while the afflicted in Limerick are out of their tree.

- Bill Barich

topic: Long, Drunk, Tree, Limerick, Hammered

It boggles my mind that someone can see life breathed into a baby, watch the grass die and then come to life again, see leaves fall and watch the rebirth of a tree, or gaze on any of the majestic splendor that is this earth and not be overpowered by the presence of an Almighty God!

- Bill McCartney

source: Bill McCartney (1995). “From Ashes to Glory”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

topic: Baby, Fall, Tree

Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains

- Bill Mollison

topic: Rain, Tree, Responsible

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

- Bill Nye

topic: Tree, Earth, Spheres

Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but theres a feeling that life is interconnected, that theres life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.

- Bill Viola

topic: Rocks, Tree, Feelings

And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.

- Billie Letts

source: Billie Letts (2004). “Shoot the moon”

topic: Tree, Green, Crystals, Pine Trees, Droplets

I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face - just some stuff I bought in the grocery store - I pile it through my hair.

- Billy Campbell

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hair, Oil, Tree, Shampoo

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

- Billy Gibbons

topic: Play, Tree, Want, Barking Up The Wrong Tree

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Greatness, Men, Tree

Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere.

- Blake Shelton

topic: Beach, Tree, Shade, Palm Trees

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

- Bob Hope

topic: Dog, Tree, Pet, Miles Apart, Siberia

Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.

Trees cover up a multitude of sins.

topic: Tree, Grows

There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.

topic: Tree, Cover Ups, Sin

Talk to the tree, make friends with it.

topic: Tree

Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.

topic: Tree

- Bob Seger

topic: Tree, Victory, Watches

Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.

- Bokar Rinpoche

topic: Love, Bird, Tree, Landing, Tree Tops

I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.

- Boris Yeltsin

topic: Crazy, Tree, Relax

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

- Brad Warner

topic: Garden, Light, Tree, Zen Master, Light Bulb

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

- Brad Warner

topic: Fall, Tree, Noise

We can see from the experience of Odin that the image of the tree was the template within which all of the sacred world could be apprehended. The tree was the framework within which one "flew" to these Otherworlds. And since the exploration of sacred space was also a quest into the nature of human consciousness, the tree was regarded as an image of the ways in which we, humans, are constructed psychically. It was a natural model for our deepest wisdom, our highest aspirations.

- Brian Bates

topic: Odin, Space, Tree, Sacred Space

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

- Brian Eno

topic: Nature, Echoes, Tree, Itchy, Ricochet

Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree?

- Brian K. Vaughan

source: Brian K. Vaughan (2009). “Runaways: Pride & Joy”, p.51, Marvel Entertainment

topic: Fall, Tree, Fruit

The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree.

- Brian Weiss

topic: Golf, Long, Tree, Humorous Golf, Golf Ball

That's a big concern right now with these storms coming on the heels of a very wet week. The soil is saturated, and the high winds that are supposed to accompany these storms could potentially knock down trees, which often take down power lines with them.

- Bryan Swanson

source: "BAY AREA / Storms head for soggy Bay Area / 'Wet, windy' through end of the week" by A. Estrella, www.sfgate.com. December 28, 2005.

topic: Wind, Tree, Storm, Storms Coming, Accompany

Derek looked at Kylie and half chuckled. "The last time I saw that look from girls, there was a handwritten note on my neighbor's tree house that read 'No boys allowed.' I'll see you. And if I get anything from my computer research, I'll let you know.

- C.C. Hunter

topic: Girl, Boys, Tree, Handwritten Notes

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.

- C.D. Wright

source: C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.29, Copper Canyon Press

topic: Goal, Tree, Enemy, Uniformity, Natural Enemies

I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.

- Camille Saint-Saens

topic: Apples, Tree, Produce, Apple Trees

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

- Carl Hiaasen

topic: Wind, Tree, Bending, Palm Trees, Coverage

Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.

- Carl Hiaasen

source: Carl Hiaasen (2012). “Chomp”, p.215, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Stupid, Tree, Sitting

Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.

- Carl Hiaasen

topic: Iguanas, Tree, Mickey

The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people should be people. But to know what people are, one must follow nature and go alone, admitting the importance of the unexpected. Still, nothing is possible without love. . . . For love puts one in a mood to risk everything, and not to withhold important elements.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

topic: Nature, People, Tree, Without Love

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

topic: Niece, Thoughtful, Tree, Twigs, Slender

At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.

topic: Roots, Tree, Heaven, Dark Side, Duality

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

topic: Animal, Clouds, Tree, Procession