Quotes by Tree When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us. Alice Walker forests tree funny When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18. Alicia Silverstone tree years school Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape. Alison Gopnik brain tree giving I do not expect anyone will ever have the opportunity of constructing another course like Cypress Point, as I do not suppose anywhere in the world is there such a glorious combination of rocky coast, sand dunes, pine woods and cypress trees. Alister MacKenzie opportunity tree world The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts. Alla Nazimova play tree character Given a limited budget, the most effective expenditure of funds to improve a street would probably be on trees. Allan Jacobs fund given tree Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below. Ambrose Bierce splinters tree hands MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees. Ambrose Bierce home tree animal A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms. Ambrose Bierce fruit tree culture Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. Ambrose Bierce leaving spring tree PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver. Ambrose Bierce vegetables gold tree LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman. Ambrose Bierce legs women tree You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky. Amelia Earhart airplane sky tree Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit. Amy Tan unseen waiting tree As time has gone on and we're at the end of the 20th century and major publishing is a big business, yes, of course we're going to get a lot of plain, mediocre trash. There are a lot of writers who get huge advances for books that don't go anywhere and they have to burn them somewhere or throw them away. I always think about all the poor trees that have been sacrificed. Ana Castillo tree book thinking Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living. Anais Nin illumination space tree Enquire: 'Who am I?' and you will find the answer. Look at a tree: from one seed arises a huge tree; from it comes numerous seeds, each one of which in its turn grows into a tree. No two fruits are alike. Yet it is one life that throbs in every particle of the tree. So, it is the same Atman everywhere. Anandamayi Ma soul tree two The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree Anchee Min good-luck luck tree That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments. Anders Fogh Rasmussen tree people needs Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery. Andrea Gibson poetry tree inspirational «1234567891011»