Quotes by Tree The tree does not die, it waits. Hermann Hesse waitingdoetree Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow anchorsseatree Even trees do not die without a groan. Henry David Thoreau diestreedeath Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground. Henry David Thoreau couplenutstree So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten. Howard Pyle forgottentreefall Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. Hosea Ballou saplazinesstree For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. Hermann Hesse longing-for-homepreachertree As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man. Homer treemenlife A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person. Howard Rheingold phonespoliticaltree The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring. Homer springtreewind A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree. Hermann Hesse childhoodbrokentree I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known. Henry David Thoreau woodsfacestree As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree. Hugh Everett III intelligenttreememories This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust! Friedrich Nietzsche paindusttree Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow shadowtreelittles Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch, and Pluplubasch when it has been raining? The word, the word, the word outside your domain, your stuffiness, this laughable impotence, your stupendous smugness, outside all the parrotry of your self-evident limitedness. The word, gentlemen, is a public concern of the first importance. Hugo Ball selfraintree The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race Hugo Rahner burningracetree There is no Bodhi tree, Huineng dustmirrorstree The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things. Henry Ward Beecher fruittreeway I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old like you, open to life, to youth, to dreams, as somebody aware that youth and age are merely steps towards eternity. Hélder Câmara dreamtreeyears«3940414243444546474849»
