Quotes by category:Tree

We did not come to remain whole. by Robert Bly

We did not come to remain whole.

being-alone whole tree

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.

photograph tree way

How old is she now?" he asked. "Hard to say. She was a tree for a... by Rick Riordan

How old is she now?" he asked. "Hard to say. She was a tree for a while. Now she's immortal.

immortal hard tree

As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

space dream tree

Now Nature hangs her mantle green by Robert Burns

Now Nature hangs her mantle green

white spring tree

I use a lot of similes and metaphors when I work, simply because it's my best way of describing a building or a scene. I'm terrible at describing landscapes - trees, buildings. The inanimate things don't interest me: I always think, "Oh, no, here comes another building I have to describe." So I usually use a simile or metaphor.

use tree thinking

It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are difficult for me as it is all too close - I can't see the woods for the trees.

woods defining tree

I thought maybe he was seeing another tree. - Juniper by Rick Riordan

I thought maybe he was seeing another tree. - Juniper

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last no... by Robert Browning

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.

Robert Browning

generations three tree

I see my trees repair their boughs. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see my trees repair their boughs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.

chinese dwarves tree

The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.

tree giving country

Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.

eye opposites tree

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.

flower tree years

Thalia had been turned into a pine tree when she was 12. Me... well, i was doing my best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if i were ever in the verge of death—plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp.

example tree might

You cannot imprison me!" He bellowed. "I am Hyperion! I am-" The bark closed over his face. Grover took his pipes from his mouth. "You are a very nice maple tree.

nice mouths tree

The tree the tempest with a crash of wood by Robert Frost

The tree the tempest with a crash of wood

journey tree thinking

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

pears murder tree

Through the window I can see Rooks above the cherry-tree, Sparrows in the violet bed, Bramble-bush and bumble-bee, And old red bracken smoulders still Among boulders on the hill, Far too bright to seem quite dead. But old Death, who can't forget, Waits his time and watches yet, Waits and watches by the door.

waiting doors tree

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds by Robert Frost

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds

bud summer tree