A Quote by Kobayashi Issa

In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends

Kobayashi Issa

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Cherry City Contemplating Fields Friends Like Strangers Trees

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Kobayashi Issa
Japanese - Poet
June 15, 1763 - January 5, 1828

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

Plato

I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It's much richer tapestry for me than green fields. Fields and wild life make me feel ill. I don't like - I don't want to write about that stuff.

Mark Billingham

Although I'm a city boy, I am a rural person at heart - and that comes from school. I'd lived near Marble Arch in London and it was fantastic to be surrounded by fields and trees.

Ben Fogle

Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school […]. I spent all my free time up in those trees. Everyone called me Tree Boy for the longest time. […]. I preferred trees to people. After that I preferred pigeons, but it was trees first.

Rabih Alameddine

Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.

John Burnham Schwartz

At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?

Jonathan Raban

I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees.

Pablo Neruda

I want to do for you what the spring does for the cherry trees

Pablo Neruda

I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.

Pablo Neruda

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Pablo Neruda

Some days, I would find what seemed like entire family trees, torn from once-treasured albums and dumped in disorganized bins, selling 10 for a dollar. I wondered how people could give up pictures of their great-grandparents for complete strangers to paw through - or why complete strangers would want them.

Ransom Riggs

From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.

Matsuo Basho

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

A. E. Housman

I go down the street, I say hello to everybody, a stranger or otherwise. I know that they do not know me, but I like to say hello and I think they appreciate it. I notice their faces light up with a smile and I believe that if all the people in our great city...would do that, the whole world would begin to say it is the "Friendly City." You can do a tremendous thing here. We get so absorbed, we do not always speak to our friends. Speak to them, even strangers, you are not going to give offense.