Famous Quotes & Sayings

Constantin Brancusi

Nothing can grow under big trees.

Constantin Brancusi

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

Clive Anderson

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

Douglas Hyde

Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Douglas Hofstadter

We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Amy Tan

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

Deepak Chopra

The trees must breathe so I can breathe.

Dave Ramsey

Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.

David Irving

History is like a constantly changing tree.

Bill Engvall

I was a dork hunter. That's hard to do. I fell out of a tree.

C. S. Lewis

If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

C. S. Lewis

Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.

It will look like the tree and waterfall have been here together.

David Brown

It went through trees before it got into the city.

Cyril Connolly

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Dar Williams

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

Colin Mochrie

Why are there so many trees in the jungle?

David Archuleta

And remember, even when you can't sing, you can always plant a tree

David Attenborough

All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

David Lloyd George

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

David Lynch

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.

Confucius

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

Dave Eggers

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

Orson Scott Card

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Ram Dass

You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is...

Cassandra Clare

Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ... "Not this again." "Not what again?" said Clary. "Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.

Mary McCarthy

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.

Nicholas Sparks

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Marilyn Ferguson

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