Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Vegetables Quotes, Tree Quotes

PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.

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A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.

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Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

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If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

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Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

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Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

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Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so.

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Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

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All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

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But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees.

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When I was asked to do something good, I often say yes, I'll try, yes, I'll do my best. And part of that is believing, if God loves me, if God made everything from leaves to seals and oak trees, then what is it I can't do?

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Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

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Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.

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As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material.

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Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.

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One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.

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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

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There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

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The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

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