Tree Quotes - Page 16

• Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
  [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel wachsen.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Taken, Sky, Care

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• I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

  Suraj Sharma

  School, Play, Two

  "Life of Pi: 'I felt like I was going insane'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Anchors, Sea, Black

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1932, Delphi Classics

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• My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

  Carre Otis

  Dog, Acres, Olives

  "Speaking for the Silent" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2012.

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• 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

  School, Years, Company

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• 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

  Wind, Storm, Lines

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

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• Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures continuously since 1995 until the end of Polaroid film. I'm taking very few pictures nowadays because I have very little film left, most of it expired.

  Patti Smith

  Light, Inspire, Littles

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• I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Hate, Animal, Meditation

  "Ellen DeGeneres to Ann Curry: 'I don't like a lot of attention.'". Interview with Ann Curry, www.today.com. October 3, 2011.

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• High trees cast long shadows. The happier and more blessed a woman's life is, the more duz she feel for them that are less blessed than she.

  Marietta Holley

  Blessed, Compassion, Long

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• Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Rights, Solitude, Hills

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• When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.

  Pete Seeger

  Mirrors, House, Looks

  Source: portside.org

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• 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

  Garden, Parks, Architecture

  Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.

  Janet Burroway

  Children, Land, Apples

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• The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet that can actually trap it for us in a natural process of photosynthesis are the trees.

  Wangari Maathai

  Atmosphere, Needs, Natural

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• One Tree Hill was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.

  Hilarie Burton

  Lucky, Television, Levels

  FaceBook post by Hilarie Burton from Aug 22, 2013

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• In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground, olive trees; but three tenses dizzy my consciousness: my present, the time of Jesus, and that of the photographer, all this under the instance of 'reality' - and no longer through the elaborations of the text, whether fictional or poetic, which itself is never credible down to the root.

  Roland Barthes

  Jesus, Reality, August

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• I had my first kiss under a tree near the school. It was with a boy named Michael who rarely spoke, but he would sometimes give me one of the cookies from his lunch. Maybe it was the gifts that made me feel special? I don't know, but when our lips touched, it felt magical.

  Paula Abdul

  School, Kissing, Boys

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• 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.

  Marshall Curry

  Cutting, Thinking, Police

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• My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.

  Tracy Morgan

  Growing Up, Purple, Color

  Tracy Morgan, Anthony Bozza (2009). “I Am the New Black”, p.12, Spiegel & Grau

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• Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.

  Laurie Holden

  Home, Community, Southern

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

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• 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

  Dark, Light, Forests

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• When I'm on set filming 'One Tree Hill,' I get up and work out four to five days a week.

  Shantel VanSanten

  Work Out, Four, Hills

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• Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.

  George Herbert

  Branches

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.357

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• I want to do the right things - I want to plant trees, I want to make sure that the indigenous forests are protected because I know, whatever happens, these are the forests that contain biodiversity, these are the forests that help us retain water when it rains and keep our rivers flowing, these are the forests that many future generations will need.

  Wangari Maathai

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. Thats it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

  Joanna Lumley

  Flower, Animal, Bird

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