Quotes by Tree I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better. Christofer Drew short-lifelife-changingtree It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are. Christopher Alexander treebeautifulway Among archetypal images, the Sacred Tree is one of the most widely know symbols on Earth. There are few cultures in which the Sacred Tree does not figure: as an image of the cosmos, as a dwelling place of gods or spirits, as a medium of prophecy and knowledge, and as an agent of metamorphoses when the tree is transformed into human or divine form or when it bears a divine or human image as its fruit or flowers. Christopher McDowell dwelling-placeflowertree Root of a tree, fruit of a vine, let me pass by this blood of mine. Christopher Paolini rootstreeblood You can't see the semantic wood for the syntactic trees. Christopher Strachey woodstree Thomas Jefferson said, The tree of liberty must be fertilized from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Yeah and I heard that and thought, I'm out! Christopher Titus tyrantstreeblood I am not a veteran environmentalist. I don't live in a house made of recycled tires, I've never handcuffed myself to a tree, and I don't grow my own organic rutabaga. Christy Mathewson veteranhousetree The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree. Chrystos gossipfruittree If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot? Chuck Palahniuk treelyingfall You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste. Cinda Williams Chima treeboyslooks I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy. Claire Danes intimidatingyaletree Everyone at Coral Tree Prep was good-looking. Really. Everyone. I didn't see a single fat or ugly kid all morning. Maybe they just locked them up at registration and didn't let them out again until graduation. Claire LaZebnik treemorningkids It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree. Clare Leighton plantgardentree Behold a tree. Does it not speak to us thusly: 'Don't you see that God is not working himself into a frenzy in me? I am calmly, quietly, silently pouring forth my life and bringing forth fruit. Do thou likewise.' Clarence Jordan pouringdoetree Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God. Clarissa Pinkola Estes cavestablestree To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy. Clarissa Pinkola Estes treewayworld Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind. Claude Debussy treeadvicewind We are like trees. We wear all colors naturally. Claude McKay colortree I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies. Clive Anderson landscapegrowing-uptree On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon. Clive Anderson environmentallevelstree«1314151617181920212223»
