Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

Cyril Connolly

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Dar Williams

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

Colin Mochrie

Why are there so many trees in the jungle?

Orson Scott Card

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Ram Dass

You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is...

Dogen

When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.

Dogen

Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

Stephen Jay Gould

Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree.

Trees can't do their thing unless they are in the right spot.

William Shakespeare

Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die! -Posthumus Leonatus Act V, Scene V

We didn't even know what trees are here, ... They've got trees there. What we have are twigs.

William Shakespeare

I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie...

E. F. Schumacher

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

Anne Lamott

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.

Daniel Johns

Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'.

Czeslaw Milosz

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

D. H. Lawrence

Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

Alexander Pope

A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

Alexander Pope

Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.

Alexander Pope

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

E. O. Wilson

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

Dorothy Richardson

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

Douglas Adams

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

Donald Knuth

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science...

Don Young

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?

Constantin Brancusi

Nothing can grow under big trees.

Constantin Brancusi

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

Clive Anderson

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

Douglas Hyde

Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Douglas Hofstadter

We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.