Quotes by Tree It’s the final word in camouflage. Forget chucking weights around. Peeta should have gone into his private session with the Gamemakers and painted himself into a tree. Or a boulder. Or a muddy bank full of weeds. Suzanne Collins weedshould-havetree The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places. Suzanne Collins flowertreenight It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies. Sylvia Townsend Warner possessionearthtree And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games. Suzanne Collins gameshere-i-amtree If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes. T. Allen Lawson differencesdonetree We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree. ... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel. Sylvia Townsend Warner nestsmadtree How dreadful it is that because of our wills we can never love anything without messing it around! We couldn’t even love a tree, a stone even; for sooner or later we should be pruning the tree or chipping a bit off the stone. Sylvia Townsend Warner pruningstonestree Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if you cut down trees, then they'll grow back. You take fish, they recover. You put stuff into the atmosphere that you know is not good for us, but we can still breathe. We haven't awakened, generally, to the sense of urgency that does exist. Sylvia Earle cuttingover-youtree I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree. Sylvia Plath sleeptreebeautiful In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile. You cannot change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. You can, however, change tomorrow's fruits. But to do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots. T. Harv Eker changerootstree The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower. Sylvia Plath flowermindtree I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant loosing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. Sylvia Plath wrinklesfeettree If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall! T. Harv Eker feettreeinspiring Maybe I'll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.' Gale who I have never seen cry has tears in his eyes. To keep them from spilling over. I reach forward and press my lips against his. We taste of heat, ashes and misery. Suzanne Collins eyetreemen This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue. Sylvia Plath lightbluetree The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient. Tacitus racedwellingtree Winter dawn is the color of metal, Sylvia Plath colorwintertree Compared with me, a tree is immortal. Sylvia Plath immortaltree Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should not be without it. Takeda Shingen treemenwar Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Takuan Soho missingforeststree«101102103104105106107108109110111»
