Quotes with trees

Quotes 41 till 57 of 57.

  • Blake Schwarzenbach The trees creak with their arthritic arms / brittle in thier powederd bark / this year took ten years to / tell me that I'm alone again
    Perfecting Loneliness (2002) Further North
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Bob Hope The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. [About Russia]
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Beryl Markham The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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  • Bruce Bennett There was only a single sharpshooter up in the trees to keep the croc away from me.
    Bruce Bennett
    American actor (1906 - 2007)
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  • C. J. Cherryh Things whispered here, and the trees muttered with the wind and perhaps with other things. Men knew the place was old, old as the world, and they never made peace with it.
    Arafels Saga (1983) The Dreamstone, Book One : The Gruagach, Ch. 1 : O
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Gore Vidal To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Alexander Smith Trees are your best antiques.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Alice Walker Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bill Viola Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Anna Freud We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Paul Tillich We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
    Paul Tillich
    German-American theologian and philosopher (1886 - 1965)
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  • Mother Teresa We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Ban Ki-moon When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Audre Lorde Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Christina Rossetti Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Raymond Chandler Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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