Tree Quotes - Page 38

• What we learned is money doesn't grow on trees.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Grows

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• The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

  John Milton

  Knowing, Grew, Ill

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.218-24.

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• We need to go back to our relationship with nature and understand that those trees are our lungs. The earth is recycling as our body. The rivers are our circulation. This air is our breath. And the star stuff, the carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen that comes from distant galaxies is actually the molecules of your body.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stars, Air, Rivers

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 27, 2015.

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• I tell people that I represent the district with a third of the California coast, the biggest trees in the world, some of the best wine grapes in the world, and about 60 percent of the marijuana produced in America.

  Jared Huffman

  Wine, Marijuana, California Coast

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm Davey. I sing, make faces and swing from trees.

  Davey Havok

  Swings, Faces

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• Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Flower, Escaping, People

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• Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Winning, Men, Expression

  "Fictional character: Stalker". "Stalker", May 1979.

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• A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.

  Carl Sandburg

  People, Down And

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• The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees and saying, "I know what I want. I know what I think." And then suddenly at 11 or 12, the gender role takes hold, and adults tell us, "How clever of you to know what time it is." It happens to boys, too and even sooner - between five and eight. Before that, boys cry and express uncertainty.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Clever, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Humans became easy prey when they moved from the forest to the savanna, which deprived them of the option of climbing trees to flee predators. This shift made it necessary for the men to actively protect the women and their babies. Only as a result of this protection were women able to give birth in shorter intervals, perhaps once every two or three years. This meant that they could produce offspring about twice as frequently as apes. I would be willing to bet that this rapid reproduction is one of the reasons why we dominate the world today, and not the apes.

  Frans de Waal

  Baby, Men, Climbing

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• Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.

  Douglas Wilson

  Liars, Order, Missing

  Douglas Jones, Douglas Wilson (1998). “Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth”, p.193, Canon Press & Book Service

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• Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpet our nation's capital, Lady Bird Johnson will be remembered. Only Lady Bird Johnson could, with her vision of a beautiful America, lay claim to spring as her memorial.

  David Mixner

  Beautiful, Country, Spring

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• And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they would have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea.

  John Sheridan

  Ideas, Evolution, Pool

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• I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

  Eyvind Kang

  Believe, Extravagance, Fruit

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• My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are the six elements of a Sacred Harp alto: rage, darkness, motherhood, earth, malice, and sex. Once you feel it, you can always do it. You know where to go for it, though it will cost you.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Teacher, Sex, Motherhood

  Mary Rose O'Reilley (2014). “The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd”, p.49, Milkweed Editions

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• Please, shun darkness, and like trees, always seek to grow toward the light.

  Marlin K. Jensen

  Light, Darkness, Please

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• Holiday and Holy Day, Christmas is more than a yule log, holly or tree. It is more than natural good cheer and the giving of gifts. Christmas is even more than the feast of the home and of children, the feast of love and friendship. It is more than all of these together. Christmas is Christ, the Christ of justice and charity, of freedom and peace.

  Francis Spellman

  Cheer, Children, Home

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• No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Ambition, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.3

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• A man who sits under a tree and dreams makes more journey than a man who goes around the world without dreaming!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Journey, Men

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• A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Hate, Cutting, Kissing

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• For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Apples, Climbs, Picks

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• A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like rings on a tree.

  Margo Kaufman

  Book, Rorschach, Tests

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• I'm kind of a walking photographer, i love exploring new places. One day I was taking a break during an excursion in the Broceliande forest, looking for the best place to settle, when I discovered a small clearing with a tree without leaves. I stayed for hours looking around, taking some pictures and I found Le Coq lying down under the tree. The tree's branches were rising as if to touch the sky.

  Jacques Lecoq

  Love, Lying, Sky

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• Each tree has its own personality, i chose them by the way I felt at the moment. Sometimes they even change my sentiments. It's kind of a spiritual experience.

  Fabien Le Coq

  Change, Spiritual, Personality

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• This is the blood's wild tree that grows the intricate and folded rose

  Judith Wright

  Blood, Rose, Grows

  Judith Wright, Jack Philip McKinney, Meredith McKinney (2004). “The Equal Heart and Mind: Letters Between Judith Wright and Jack McKinney”, p.109, Univ. of Queensland Press

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