Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

Carson McCullers

I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?

Al Gore

Plant trees, Lots of trees

Charles Darwin

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

Alana Beard

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.

Eckhart Tolle

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

Edward Ruscha

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

We have approximately 600 to 700 trees uprooted and down,

Brandon Sanderson

You're a sword not a palm tree

Barbara Kingsolver

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

Barbara Kingsolver

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

Bashar al-Assad

Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.

Brenda Strong

I realized that a tree never says, "I have too many branches." It simply digs deeper roots, expands itself to catch more light, and extends itself in multiple directions so as not to be unevenly weighted.

Jane Goodall

Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.

James Whitcomb Riley

The ripest peach is highest on the tree

Charles Fort

If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time.

Charles Bukowski

and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.

Charles Bukowski

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

Barbara Walters

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

Anton Chekhov

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends

Diane Duane

She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.

Daniel Handler

Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things." "But different things can often blend together," said the pine tree. "Let me tell you a funny story about pagan rituals.

Bob Dylan

Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees...

Arthur Schopenhauer

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

Edwin Louis Cole

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

Art Spiegelman

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.

Daniel Handler

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

Elizabeth I

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A forest doesn't weep over one tree.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.