Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthieu Ricard

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

Matthew McConaughey

The tree is known by his fruit.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We never see anything completely. We never see a tree, we see the tree through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree.

Pat Conroy

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

Leonardo da Vinci

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Patrick O'Brian

He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again.

Patrick Rothfuss

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

Marilyn Ferguson

The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

Mikhail Gorbachev

To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

Publilius Syrus

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Neill Blomkamp

A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.

Neil Young

This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.

Nhat Hanh

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

Nhat Hanh

When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise its nose. We can learn the Dharma from the oak tree; therefore, the oak tree is part of our Dharmakaya. We can learn from everything that is around, that is in us.

Jodi Picoult

Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

Jodi Picoult

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

Margaret Atwood

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

Margaret Atwood

The farther north you go, the fewer fruits and vegetables there are. What kind of apple trees do you suggest the Inuit get their apples from? And how much oil is expended transporting such things out there? It's an equation.

Marc Bolan

Our lives are merely trees of possibilities.

Lauren Oliver

This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates.

Paul Merson

David Nugent tore up the Championship but he’s gone to Portsmouth and he’s a fish up a tree

Paul Muldoon

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

Martin Fleischmann

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

Nikki Sixx

There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.

Mary McCarthy

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

Nicholas Sparks

You can't see the forest for the trees.

P. L. Travers

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

P. G. Wodehouse

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

Matt Groening

I'd be vegetarian if bacon grew on trees

Masanobu Fukuoka

By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself!