Quotes by Tree We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA. Henry Louis Gates technologydnatree Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy. Friedrich Nietzsche differencestreelying Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the Christian faith. That person becomes a branch that is torn from the tree and shrivels, an organ that is separated from the body and therefore doomed to die. Only within the communion of the saints can the length and the breadth, the depth and the height, of the love of Christ be comprehended. Herman Bavinck churchchristiantree No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets. Henry Ward Beecher townshousetree He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, Henry Van Dyke generationskindnesstree Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches. Henry Van Dyke dustfeettree Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. Henry Miller donetreejoy Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow growthagetree Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden was the honey; golden, too, the music, Where the honey-makers hummed among the trees. Henry Van Dyke shepherdslong-agotree Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint. Henry Ward Beecher saintherotree A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. Hermann Hesse hometreelooks It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. Henry David Thoreau applestreemen Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. Hermann Hesse lawtreelife One Tree Hill was a great learning opportunity for me, and Im excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up. Hilarie Burton hillsopportunitytree I want the kids who watch 'One Tree Hill' to know that it's all pretend, and that the person at the core of that character values morals, honor and things like that. You want to inspire them to look beyond what is superficial and try to find that greater thing. Hilarie Burton treecharacterkids For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. Hermann Hesse lonelytreemen What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty. Henry Ward Beecher applesgardentree A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be. Friedrich Nietzsche soundtreemen One Tree Hill was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate. Hilarie Burton luckytreetelevision A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening... Hermann Hesse hearttreewind«3738394041424344454647»
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