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Last updated on December 2, 2024.
My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.
Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.
I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.
Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead Overhead.
A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.
The human race, my intuition tells me, is not outside the cosmic process and is not an accident. It is as much a part of the universe as the trees, the mountains, the aurora, and the stars.
Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.
I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely 'timber!'
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees
and changing leaves.
Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
George Foreman can knock down
an oak tree
... but oak trees don't move.
To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.
Love must blossom. Through love will grow the trees and the bushes.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.
To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.
If you live, live free
or die like the trees, standing up.
Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.
We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.
My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.
I had a wild imagination as a kid - wild! - and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself.
In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.
... the same hand that made trees and fields and flowers, the seas and hills, the clouds and sky, has been making a home for us called heaven.
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.
If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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.
But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer.
We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.
Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates
Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees
One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.
And the day climbs down from its blue loft-bed on a slanting ladder of sunbeams, pauses a moment between the trees, airy-light, young.
Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.
Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.
Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.
It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest.
I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.
The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.
Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.
If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.
If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
Trees and flowers are so important. The idea of blooming is the idea of becoming something different.
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
The history of blacks is complicated, fragmented, disturbing to contemplate - not a neat trail of challenges met or of felled trees blocking the path to the mountain top.
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
Someone is dead.
Even the trees know it,
those poor old dancers who come on lewdly,
all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.
I'm very close in age to my older brother, and we had a field at the end of the road where we could run around, climb trees, play football.
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden.
The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.