Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

Mary Stewart

Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.

Philip Larkin

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said;

John Ray

A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.

George Gaylord Simpson

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

Lynn Margulis

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

Sherwood Anderson

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn’t you? (Acheron)

Mircea Eliade

The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.'

Mechai Viravaidya

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

We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree

John Ruskin

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

Joe Hill

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

Lucy Larcom

Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.

John Green

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

John Fletcher

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

John Maeda

The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

Jim Rohn

If you don't like where you are, then change it. You are not a tree!

Jim Rohn

And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life-and it all begins with your very own power of choice.

Karen Joy Fowler

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Leonard Cohen

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

Laurell K. Hamilton

[Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp. Part of me was screaming silently. The other part was saying, 'Oh, what pretty trees.

John Keats

It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.

John Keats

Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way From a tree's summit

Lori Foster

Trace cursed. He actually wanted to hit something, but a tree would break his knuckles, he didn't want to put another dent in the truck, and Dare would hit back.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The Zionist regime is a dried up and rotten tree which will be annihilated with one storm.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Like the hollow nothingness within the seed of a tree, which contains the potential of the entire tree, the experience of nothingness in the unmanifest field has within it the lively potential of everything in creation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

Gavin Newsom

Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have

Freya Stark

We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.