Tree Quotes - Page 37

• I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me - and I didn't hear it.

  Steven Wright

  Forests, Walking, Fronts

  "I Have A Pony". Comedy album by Steven Wright, 1985.

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• Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.

  Thomas Campbell

  Garden, Land, Patriotism

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.182

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• The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.

  Virgil

  Fear, Wind, Storm

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• The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine.

  Lord Byron

  Wall, Wine, Cities

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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• Tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals [in Hollywood should]... go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else.... It's just too damn bad we didn't buy them a ticket [to become human shields in Iraq].

  Jim Gibbons

  Hippie, Somewhere Else, Iraq

  "Demanding an Apology" by Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. March 04, 2005.

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• Let us go over, and sit in the shade of the trees.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Shade, Last Words

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• I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with.

  Scott Walker

  Kids, Iran, Yellow

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is called to be this place where the [God's] Spirit uses normal patterns and rhythms of the Christian life in a community, so that we may bear fruit like a well-watered tree. Despite common appearances, the church is the place where God's new creation is coming into existence and being sustained by the Spirit like a great vineyard.

  Michael Horton

  Christian, Godly, Maturity

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.

  Jane Goodall

  Growing, Fruit, Sustainability

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• I was rather shaken by all the green trees. I always am. It gets me. I don't want to be funny about it but I am. I loved seeing all the westerns, but I had asthma and couldn't go anywhere, but I loved watching them in Technicolor and seeing the cowboys and the landscapes of Monument Valley and you'd see the forests of the Anthony Mann films and think, 'wow, that's fantastic', but I could never go there!

  Martin Scorsese

  Cowboy, Thinking, Valleys

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!

  Chris Colfer

  Cute, Nice, Car

  "*Glee'*s Chris Colfer Wants to Show You His Ass". Interview with Brett Berk, www.vanityfair.com. April 27, 2010.

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• It's okay for someone to chase me and then try to cut me off so I ram my car into a tree . . . I mean, I know this guy was trying to do his job, but his "job" almost landed me half-dead.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Jobs, Mean, Cutting

  "Behind-the-Scenes with Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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• If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

  Sam Keen

  Air, Owl, Habitat

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars, to birds, to wildflowers, to trees and bushes, to butterflies, to reptiles and amphibians. Because when you look at anything long enough to be able to identify it, you see far more clearly and you make a tiny beginning at understanding the life, the place, the history of that bird or rock or mammal.

  Marge Piercy

  Stars, Butterfly, Rocks

  Source: margepiercy.com

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• I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous, but at some point, I'll wander off by myself. The paradox is that what began in childhood as an act of necessary solitude has led me straight to a life with others, in which I fly to China or Lithuania or northern Minnesota to read my poems and talk with other people who love language made into a lathe on which a life can be tuned and be turned.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Writing, Winter, Apples

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs of the state. A government does not exist to control the citizens. When it does, it is a tyranny, and must be fought. The tree of liberty, Jefferson warned us, must be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Government, Blood

  Interview with David Sheff, www.davidsheff.com. December 1987.

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• You can't see the semantic wood for the syntactic trees.

  Christopher Strachey

  Woods

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• It's easy to die. Just give your breath back to the trees and the wind.

  Peter Levitt

  Wind, Giving, Easy

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• Trees cause pollution.

  Ronald Reagan

  Causes, Pollution

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• Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. "You eat this apple; you're going to be as smart as God." We can't have that.

  Frank Zappa

  Smart, Apples, Okay

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• Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay

  William S. Burroughs

  Sacrifice, Color, Looks

  William S. Burroughs (1979). “Ah Pook is here, and other texts”, Calder Publications Limited

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• A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Shade, Today

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• A tree is an aerial garden, a botanical migration from the sea, from those earliest plants, the seaweeds; it is a purchase on crumbled rock, on ground. The human, standing, is only a different upsweep and articulation of cells. How treelike we are, how human the tree.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Garden, Rocks, Cells

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• Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.

  William O. Douglas

  Grass, Judicial, Standing

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• The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.

  Ramakrishna

  Morning, Thinking, Roots

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