Quotes by category:Tree

Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked). by Henry Ward Beecher

Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

Henry Ward Beecher

cows spring tree

The tree is stripped, by Ikkyu

The tree is stripped,

color spring tree

The tree is but a huge boquet. by Henry Ward Beecher

The tree is but a huge boquet.

Henry Ward Beecher

huge flower tree

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I... by Imran Khan

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

Henry Ward Beecher

shrubs tree world

Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we... by Irenaeus of Lyons

Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.

Irenaeus of Lyons

debtors debt tree

Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tre... by India.Arie

Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree

tolerance acceptance tree

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is crea... by Henry Ward Beecher

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

Henry Ward Beecher

I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars.

Henry David Thoreau

flower god tree

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Henry Ward Beecher

plants-growing shade tree

Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healt... by Irving Bacheller

Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

Irving Bacheller

opinion healthy tree

Trees have roots, Jews have legs. by Isaac Deutscher

Trees have roots, Jews have legs.

Isaac Deutscher

legs roots tree

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .

Henry David Thoreau

race stories tree

and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees... by Hunter S. Thompson

and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly

Hunter S. Thompson

tired tree bird

Plant no other tree before the vine. by Horace

Plant no other tree before the vine.

vines plant tree

You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the LORD's renown, for an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed.

tree song hands

The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.

Was it for crimes that I had done by Isaac Watts

Was it for crimes that I had done

easter tree love-is

All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.

far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

home tree country