Quotes with trees

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  • George Eliot It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Peter Seller Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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  • A. E. Housman Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
    Is hung with bloom along the bough.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 2, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Al Jarreau My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
    Al Jarreau
    American singer and musician (1940 - 2017)
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  • Bill Hader My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • William Wordsworth No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • William Shakespeare Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Marcelene Cox Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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  • Dave Barry Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Winston Churchill Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bjarke Ingels St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Beth Orton Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I've married someone from Vermont, so it's an expression I kept hearing, and I'm like, 'What is that? That's just so beautiful.' I like the idea it's the very, very first murmurings of spring.
    Beth Orton
    English singer-songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Dylan Thomas The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • Thornton Wilder The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Meister Eckhart The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • William Penn The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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