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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The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

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This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

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A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew.

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At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

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He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.

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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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A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

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Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

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We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

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We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

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

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The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.

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The tree of life for me is a symbol of abundance and eternal life.

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Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

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Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

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When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

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