Tree Quotes
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Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a 'bushes and bunnies' environmentalist out to save the planet or the whales - although I do not denigrate that perspective either, and I really like whales.
Peter Navarro
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The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.
Dannie Abse
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
John Stuart Mill
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The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.
Flannery O'Connor
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In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't realize that Brad Pitt was a real person. I didn't think he was a robot or a machine, but I thought you were just born into acting - that it's a family tree, kind of like NASCAR. No one can just say, 'Hey, I'm going to be a NASCAR driver.'
Kellan Lutz
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Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
Mary Hunter Austin
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I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
Jack Roy
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The plum tree in the yard's so smallIt's hardly like a tree at all.Yet there it is, railed roundTo keep it safe and sound.The poor thing can't grow any moreThough if it could it would for sure.There's nothing to be doneIt gets too little sun.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
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Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.
Jonas Mekas
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California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I'm eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I'm a Cali girl through and through.
Drew Barrymore
