I need to live like that crooked tree--...
that knelt down in the hardest winds
but could not be blasted away.
Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.
A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.
If you look close ... you can see that the wild critters have 'No Trespassing' signs tacked up on every pine tree.
In the midst of all the candy and commercialism, let's not lose sight of the true meaning of Halloween: tree worship and animal sacrifice.
Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.
One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.
No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe
The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor.
Fighting the wild branches of a haunted tree is not something that every actor is confident enough to attack, literally and figuratively.
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.
There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.
Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats.
It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.
All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.
When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree.
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.
My weave fell off. I was running in PE, and it got caught in a tree. People were looking at me funny.
A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.
I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.
When I was little, I was like a magpie, which is a bird that's attracted to shiny things. They'll build their nests with Christmas tree tinsel.
Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.
Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.
I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.
Olive oil is the cornerstone of Mediterranean cuisine. This tree is the thread from which the tapestry of the Med has been woven.
It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.
The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
My brother was four years older and always building tree houses. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned carpentry.
Well I know the secret places, And the nests in hedge and tree; At what doors are friendly faces, In what hearts are thoughts of me.
They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.
Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.
As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate
I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.
All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.
You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.
The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful. There's no such thing as a PowerBar tree.
Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms.
The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor
A lot of my comedy is physical, so you don't have to understand English to get that I'm choking to death on cinnamon or falling out of this tree or whatever.
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
Was it for crimes that I had done
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! Grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.
I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.
I'm not speaking metaphorically, plants that you have in your house, or if you've ever made friends with a tree somewhere, there is a moment that these beings can aid you.
I bought a Christmas tree for twenty dollars. When I came home the next day, my wife was wearing it in her hair.
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].
I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the dream
The world is a dangerous place, full of people who don't trust each other. This is why I am staying up in this tree.
How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.
One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.
A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.
I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.
This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.
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