Tree Quotes - Page 27

• There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, College, Men

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• Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Crazy, Moving

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• When God gives a promise, He always tries our faith. Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind, so faith takes a firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Struggle, Wind, Roots

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1847). “Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry”, p.470

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• If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.

  Kyo Maclear

  Beautiful, Flower, Cake

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• I thought of my father's wisdom, as though it were buried in a box under a tree. As in the old song - a gold box with a silver pin. Some day I should be grown up, and I should dig up the box and turn the pin.

  Mary Butts

  Song, Father, Gold

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• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.

  Hannah More

  Produce, Ifs

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.223

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Roots, Attachment, Age

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• Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead and discarded, as though intuitively aware that there is nothing new under the sun. Throughout the physical world, from the cosmic to the subatomic, the same refrain resounds. Conservation: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

  Natalie Angier

  Nature, Law, Ideas

  Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.

  Chrystos

  Gossip, Fruit, Bitter

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• The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.

  Hanan al-Shaykh

  Heart, Views, Years

  Hanan Al-Shaykh (2010). “Women of Sand and Myrrh”, p.352, A&C Black

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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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• 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 love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. Its a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

  Gail Simmons

  Swimming, Rivers, Moss

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• I started finding hearts in things - whether it was like, a tree I was passing, a straw wrapper on the ground, I think the heart has one continuous line, which is very powerful.

  Drew Barrymore

  Powerful, Heart, Thinking

  "Drew Barrymore Will Forbid Her Daughter From Posing For Playboy". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.

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• August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.

  Jean Hersey

  Weed, Sweet, Garden

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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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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• The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.

  Horace

  Snow, Lasts, Fields

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• 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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