Tree Quotes - Page 35

• The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties of the cherry blossom tree, and while most of them produce flowering branches full of small pinkish-hued flowers, some of them produce actual cherries.

  Homaro Cantu

  Flower, Sight, Branches

  "The Significance of the Cherry Blossom: From Beloved Tree to Cultural Icon" by Homaro Cantu, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2013.

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• If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.

  Homaro Cantu

  Corn, Way, Portions

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• Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

  Adam Ross

  Forever

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• I grew up on a Christmas tree farm with all this space to run around, and the [freedom] to be a crazy kid with tangled hair.

  Taylor Swift

  Running, Crazy, Kids

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that's really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I'm an air breather, I've gotten used to that over the years.

  Robin Williams

  Nice, Drinking, Air

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In the early days it was fun to fly. You could soar over rooftops and trees, or drop down to meet a passing train and wave at the engineer. The whole sky belonged to you. now there are so many regulations. The sky is crowded. All the fun is gone.

  Katherine Stinson

  Fun, Sky, Gone

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• A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten what you think is. You should be holding onto that tree or rock screaming. Or laughing. Not at absurdity, either: absurdism is just a bourgeois and reactionary nostalgia for good, stable meaning.

  Tony Burgess

  Fall, Thinking, Rocks

  "The book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. August 31, 2015.

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• Does anyone pray before they cut a tree? I haven't seen anyone do that yet in the timber industry. But my vision is that that day is coming. I have a vision of a world in which we relate to each other as souls - not as personalities - not as bodies and minds and capabilities to accomplish things in this domain of the five sense, but as immortal spirits learning together how to co-create this world.

  Gary Zukav

  Cutting, Personality, Soul

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• I was playing cowboys and Indians in the trees, and then I started hitting the golf club with clubs father sawed off for me, and I began playing right here with my father.

  Arnold Palmer

  Father, Golf, Cowboy

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• Things that influence me are my kids, their happiness, colorfulness, and vitality. My husband - he comes up with some great quotes and ideas. God - He is the Ultimate artist. And what I see around me - flowers, leaves, trees, birds, fruit, vegetables.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Husband, Flower, Kids

  Source: sara-mincy.blogspot.com

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• All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Details, Form

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• All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Branches, Sake

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• A dog came to my door, so I gave him a bone, the dog took the bone into the back yard and buried it. I'm going to go plant a tree there, with bones on it, then the dog will come back and say, "Shoot! It worked! I must distribute these bones equally for I have a green paw!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Dog, Humor

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• I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend, and I say something, he says, "What?" So I say it again, and he says, "What?" Really, it's just some insignificant stuff I'm saying, but now I'm yelling, "That tree is far away!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Yelling

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• The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.

  Al Pacino

  Fall, Fruit, Shakes

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes it's nice to be able to reflect on the music itself and then write lyrics that I feel anyone can relate to. It's not my dreaming tree that is dead. The feeling of a loss of hope is universal. There are moments that we've all felt a little bit of it, so I don't think it is something that is too hard to identify with.

  Dave Matthews

  Dream, Nice, Writing

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• ... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Information, Forests

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• I honestly don't have many creative outlets. I'm not crafty - although motherhood has forced me to try to be - and I can only draw trees, beaches, and clouds. I'm a so-so cook except for deviled eggs. Writing has always been the one thing I feel that I am pretty good at doing. But it's enough, thank goodness.

  Sarah Dessen

  Beach, Writing, Motherhood

  "Goodreads YA Interview - Sarah Dessen". Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. May 2015.

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• Let mine not be that saddest fate of all To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the tree Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall... "She lives, but all her usefulness is past."

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Appreciation, Fall, Fate

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.386, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Some people when I speak of awareness of the "inner body" call it a technique. I would not call it a technique because it is too simple for that. When the oak tree feels its roots in the earth, its connectedness with the earth, it is not practicing a technique.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Simple, Roots, People

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenomenon likes trees or rocks, I just wanted to be one of the people who did that. So I was copying all kinds of cartoons that I was reading, comic books, and eventually learned how to draw cartoon books step-by-step and just, I don't know, I'm not an especially quick learner, but I sure was a dedicated one.

  Art Spiegelman

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Art Spiegelman’s Life in the 'Shadow of Maus'". Interview with Eric Wuestewald, www.motherjones.com. January 6, 2014.

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• I hit two trees and fell down a ditch. And that was just walking from the lodge.

  Bill Engvall

  Funny, Humor, Two

  "Cheap Drunk: An Autobiography". Album, 2002.

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• It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are difficult for me as it is all too close - I can't see the woods for the trees.

  Robert Dessaix

  Woods, Defining, Easier

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Judging, Fruit, Bears

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The condom has saved so many lives and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

  Mechai Viravaidya

  Rubber, Condom, Deals

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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