Top 1200 Olive Trees Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

I adore water, so it would be a real adventure to visit the Amazon before they chop down all the trees.

I know that I was hiking at a very young age because I remember being convinced that it was the trees that were talking.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .

The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.

Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener.

Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!

Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

i was momentarily sidetracked by the vision of Eric herding a cow into a trailer and driving it to the shoulder of the the interstate and shooing it into the trees.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.

Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.

Are you a hoarder of more negative thoughts or positive ones? Whichever ones you hoard, grow into trees and then forests.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.

Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five clusters, if they practice sincerely they attain enlightenment. Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. This is because the four elements and five clusters and plants, trees, fences and walls are fellow students; because they are of the same essence, because they are the same mind and the same life, because they are the same body and the same mechanism.

Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.

I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it

Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom.

Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people

I don't believe in carbon offsetting. Planting 60 trees so you don't have to say your Hail Marys that night? It's a crock.

I was always in hospital as a kid: I had a tumour on my knee, lots of broken bones. I loved climbing trees.

Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.

I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.

I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.

I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.

Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.

To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly

The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.

On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong! And the Monkeys all say Boo! Theres a Nang Nong Ning Where the trees go Ping! And the tea pots Jibber Jabber Joo On the Nong Ning Nang All the Mice go Clang! And you just cant catch em when they do! So its Ning Nang Nong! Cows go Bong! Nong Nang Ning! Trees go Ping! Nong Ning Nang! The mice go Clang! What a noisy place to belong,Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!

My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

I think women have a unique talent for being able to see the forest and the trees at the same time.

Reflectors need to be placed on trees every 50 feet so people can hike at night with flashlights.

When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees?