Quotes by category:Tree

When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line, but in fact it's nothing like that. The work is very experimental and most of the time it develops like branches. I usually see a capillary, like a tree shape where there are... branches that sort of move because you're not tending to them.

tree facts moving

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tr... by Vikram Seth

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

rooted tree thinking

If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.

Viggo Mortensen

quiet-moments tree might

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on th... by Victor Hugo

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

trifling stories tree

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

fruit apples tree

Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.

weight heart tree

When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be c... by Vin Diesel

When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.

actors tree children

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree... by Vince Staples

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.

calling native-american tree

Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.

Vincent de Paul

wisdom roots tree

If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its br... by Vinoba Bhave

If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.

cutting government tree

I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.

cutting desire tree

In trees, I see expression and soul by Vincent Van Gogh

In trees, I see expression and soul

Vincent Van Gogh

soul expression tree

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.

dropping feet tree

I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in letters on the little trees/ The story of my love, and as the trees/ Will grow letters too will grow, to cry/ In a louder voice the story of my love.

voice tree song

Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

Vincent Van Gogh

long-walks expression tree

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the... by Virgil

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full... by Virginia Woolf

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Vivienne Westwood

woods views tree

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, a... by Vladimir Horowitz

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

Vladimir Horowitz

cutting nature tree

But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.

dust tree sweet