Quotes by Tree Have a special interest, a positive prejudice about some clump of trees or one particular knoll, an excitement about them can spread through the whole composition, and so fire the rest of the things that you are only mildly interested in. John French Sloan specialfiretree Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth John Ford growthspringtree Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer. John Flanagan doetreeboys When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks. Familiarizing yourself in this way with the subject, you will get a better concept of the thing and not a visual and false snapshot. John French Sloan rockshousetree Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit. John Fowles sailortreemen Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all. John Greenleaf Whittier gardenflowertree All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe springtreelife There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive. John Hay naturetreewater Then the two friends leaned back and watched the sun rise clear of the trees. “Best time of day,” said Will. Yes,” Horace agreed. “What’s for breakfast? John Flanagan two-friendstreebreakfast May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest. John Henry Jowett life-is-likemaytree There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore. John Hillaby rockscavestree If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be? John Donne envytreedeath The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants. John James Audubon hintstreegiving If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, John Keats learningtreeinspirational Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit. John Keats life-istreeway All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland. John Heywood garlandsgreentree The God who hates trees is the founding father of patriarchy. John Lamb Lash hatetreefather Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence. John Knowles separate-peaceviolencetree Monotheism begins with a god who hates trees. John Lamb Lash monotheismhatetree So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence. John Knowles endureviolencetree«5152535455565758596061»
