Tree Quotes - Page 23

• You are wind in a stark tree,
  you are the stark tree unbent,
  you are a strung bow,
  you are an arrow.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Wind, Arrows, Dancing

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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• A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.

  Kate Millett

  Change, Real, Circles

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.360, University of Illinois Press

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• O happy, golden age!
  Not for that rivers ran
  With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees

  Torquato Tasso

  Milk And Honey, Rivers, Age

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• And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad
  Unless they lose control of ugly thoughts
  That drive them out to jabber among the trees.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  War, Mad, Soldier

  Siegfried Sassoon (2004). “War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• There is a glorious pattern for every man's life, an individual, perfect patter. No two people are alike ... No two leaves are alike-no two snowstorms-no two sets of fingerprints. No two lives are alike, yet each life holds a divine pattern of unfoldment, a great and holy destiny, rich in achievement and honor. As you live true to the pattern of yourself, that deep, inner self, you will unfold as perfect, as joyous, as naturally beautiful as the tree will reach its full measure of fulfillment.

  Annalee Skarin

  Beautiful, Destiny, Men

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• Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Beautiful, New York, Cities

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• the scythers, Time and Death,
  Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath

  Robert Lowell

  Death, Time, Moving

  Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”

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• O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree,
  So scant of grass, so profligate of pines

  Jean Toomer

  Sweet, Land, Gum

  Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.26, UNC Press Books

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• The weakness of most men
  they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

  Aime Cesaire

  Men, Weakness, Stones

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• After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets... and a partridge in a pear tree, I have found what I believe are the best answers this planet has to offer about living a healthy, happy, and balanced life.

  Marilu Henner

  Mistake, Book, Believe

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• After writing several Nutbrown Hare stories, I thought: what might happen when a little hare begins to explore the space around him? (Think of rivers, mountains, fields and trees!) Will there be fun? Oh yes. Will there be trouble ahead? Could be. For you, here are some of the adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare.

  Sam McBratney

  Fun, Writing, Adventure

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• Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.

  Garrett Fort

  Hope, Stars, Lying

  "Fictional character: Henry Frankenstein". "Frankenstein", www.imdb.com. November 21, 1931.

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• I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.

  Gottlob Frege

  Roots, Technique, Depth

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• There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height.

  Gottlob Frege

  Growing Up, Heaven, Height

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• If you live, live free
  or die like the trees, standing up.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Live Free, Standing, Dies

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• When you look at what is happening to our world-and it is hard to look at what's happening to our water, our air, our trees, our fellow species-it becomes clear that unless you have some roots in a spiritual practice that holds life sacred and encourages joyful communion with all your fellow beings, facing the enormous challenges ahead becomes nearly impossible.

  Joanna Macy

  Spiritual, Practice, Roots

  Joanna Macy (2013). “Greening of the Self”, p.5, Parallax Press

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• Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis. 'I feel so rotten about myself. I don't produce as much acorns as the one next to me.'

  Adyashanti

  Insane, Rotten, Next

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• It is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born ... Some call me the Elder Granny, others - the Dryad, but my real name is Memory. It is I who sits on a tree that keeps on growing, and growing, it is I who reminisces and tells stories.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Memories, Real, Names

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• O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.

  Al-Ghazali

  Book, Men, Hands

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• For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses,
  roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs,
  yellow blossoms flourished above you in autumn, and in winter
  frost heaved your bones in the ground--old toilers, soil makers:
  O Roger, Mackerel, Riley, Ned, Nellie, Chester, Lady Ghost.

  Donald Hall

  Horse, Winter, Autumn

  Donald Hall (1990). “Old and New Poems: Donald Hall”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.

  Thomas Huxley

  Character, Eggs, Development

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.287, University of Georgia Press

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• Have you ever been through a painful season in life and wished for something new, something fresh, or even something healing to come along? Take this journey with Robin Price, a widow and single mother with a big heart and passion for those closest to her as she wades through trying to live, let go, and love again. Wishing on Willows is a story of hope that will find you stepping up to the willow tree and daring to make wishes

  Jane Kirkpatrick

  Letting Go, Mother, Healing

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• A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.

  Jacques Roumain

  Dream, Nature, Rain

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• ...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.

  David Fairchild

  Children, Garden, Cities

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• Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

  Elton John

  Artist, Woods, Sometimes

  "Mylo: Would you ever play Glastonbury? Elton: Oh no - I'm too like the Queen Mother". Interview with Myles 'Mylo' MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2005.

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