Quotes by Tree Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain. Lance Armstrong treewindpast A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant. Laozi crackstreewind Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me Langston Hughes blacktreenight Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree. Langston Hughes shadowtreelove-is A tree that is unbending, is easily broken. Laozi broken-heartacceptancetree If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees. Laozi concernedlightningtree I recently went for a walk in a state park and found that some of my favorite trees had collapsed. It makes me feel vulnerable, personally and for my children. Laura Regan parkstreechildren They never exhale, the trees; on a very windy day, they rustle and inhale, and then the leaves and the branches all tremble as though something means to strangle the life from them. The sky watches on. The world is filled with anticipation, as if to wonder if this day will be a great day, or a horrible day, or the last day. Lauren DeStefano skytreemean And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open. Lauren DeStefano orangegirltree All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me. Laurie Anderson togethertreetalking Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South. Laurie Holden communityhometree When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky. Laurie Anderson skytreelooks A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. Laozi hairtreemen I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other. Lawrence Fagg gracetreetwo [Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp. Part of me was screaming silently. The other part was saying, 'Oh, what pretty trees. Laurell K. Hamilton fistsbodytree All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry. Laozi taoismdrytree Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree. Laurie Halse Anderson perfecttreeinteresting This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates. Lauren Oliver encountersanswerstree The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes. Le Corbusier citizensstonestree I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.' Laurie Halse Anderson screwed-updoubttree«6061626364656667686970»
