Tree Quotes

• I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Good
  • Art
  • Book

• But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Growing
  • Tree

• I have the deepest respect for Terrence Malick and greatly enjoyed helping him on 'Tree of Life.' I consider him to be a good personal friend and professional contemporary.

  

  Douglas Trumbull
  • Life
  • Good
  • Respect

• I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

  

  John Muir
  • Travel
  • Tree

• There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly . . . survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.

  

  Betty Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Beautiful

• Mr Raj had been purely Orientally and fancifully complimentary (‘So great a man, his lingam as long and thick as a tree, the father of whole villages’).

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Great
  • Long
  • Father

• I kinda flirt with everything and everyone, no matter if it's a tree or a coffee cup. I can't resist.

  

  Mika
  • Everyone
  • Resist
  • Kinda

• The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.

  

  James Irwin
  • Beautiful
  • Earth
  • Space

• Can you really learn to knit from a diagram? Try it. Do you want to learn to ski or surf by yourself? You could drown or run into a tree.

  

  Chris Raschka
  • Tree

• 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.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Poetry
  • Cry
  • Kitten

• You know how some trees have those ear mushrooms that just grow off, and you could live on one of those mushrooms and not realize that there was stacks and stacks of others? That's how I describe music scenes in New York. That's one of the trippiest things about living here - just how many parallel universes there are that you can be completely unaware of.

  

  Caroline Polachek Chairlift
  • Universe
  • Realizing
  • Scene

• Eyes I dare not meet in dreamsIn death's dream kingdom´These do not appear:There, the eyes areSunlight on a broken columnThere, is a tree swingingAnd voices areIn the wind's singingMore distant and more solemnThan a fading star.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Death
  • Dream
  • Eyes

• The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Win
  • Tree
  • Force

• Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Tree
  • Speaks
  • Fluttering

• What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far on Earth belongs to the same tree. We share genes with mushrooms and oak trees and fish and bacteria that live in volcanic vents and so on that it's all the same life descended from a common origin. What we want is a second tree of life. We want alien life, alien not necessarily in the sense of having come from space, but alien in the sense of belonging to a different tree altogether. That is what we're looking for, "life 2.0."

  

  Paul Davies
  • Different
  • Earth
  • Common

• Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

  

  William Law
  • Evil
  • Sin
  • Fallen

• I do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into both Denmark and Sweden. I don't think about it, of course, when I am writing.

  

  Per Petterson
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Tree

• The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Tree

• If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • God
  • Growing

• My name is Kvothe, pronounced nearly the same as 'Quothe.' Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I’ve had more names than anyone has a right to.The Adem call me Maedre. Which, depending on how it’s spoken, can mean 'The Flame,' 'The Thunder,' or 'The Broken Tree.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Great
  • Important
  • Broken

• If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'

  

  Annie Golden
  • Tree

• As a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved. I thought it was my mother's joy and privilege to hang tinsel on the tree strand by strand, to make sure that every room in the house had a touch of Christmas, down to the Santa-themed rug and hand towels in the bathroom.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Mother
  • House
  • Hand

• Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Universe
  • Air

• History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them.

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • History
  • Tree

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