Quotes by Tree Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at. Firoozeh Dumas fruittreechildren I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you’re being sucked down into the ocean and you can’t breathe… It’s something overwhelming and all-encompassing that fills you up, and you’re either going to explode with it, or you’re just going to disappear. Florence Welch oceansoundtree The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree. Flannery O'Connor hilariouscuttingtree I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground. Florence Welch hittingjumpingtree The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled. Flannery O'Connor silverwhitetree Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. Florence King genealogydevotedtree Only in dreams of spring Frances Hodgson Burnett dreamspringtree Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees. Frances Perkins climbinghikingtree The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs. Francis Bacon treescienceknowledge Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us. Francesca Lia Block blossomingstoriestree Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. Francis Marion self-reliancetreepromise Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be. Francis Spufford readingtreesong Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off. Francis Quarles cuttingsoldiertree The value of the things is not in themselves autonomously, but that God made them, and thus they deserve to be treated with high respect. The tree in the field is to be treated with respect. It is not to be romanticized as the old lady romanticizes her cat (that is, she reads human reactions into it). This is wrong because it is not true. When you drive the axe into the tree when you need firewood, you are not cutting down a person; you are cutting down a tree. But while we should not romanticize the tree, we must realize God made it and it deserves respect because He made is as a tree. Francis Schaeffer catcuttingtree My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death. Francis Bacon treelove-isbeautiful When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree. Fran Lebowitz treebookpeople It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! Francis Bacon wheelsdusttree Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves. Frank O'Hara treeheavenlying The best friend of earth of man is the tree. Frank Lloyd Wright earthtreemen Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. Francis Bacon violencetreebeautiful«2728293031323334353637»
