Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes, Hands Quotes, Tree Quotes

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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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Roots Quotes , Tree Quotes

The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout.

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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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Would there be trees if we didn't see them?

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And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Long Quotes , Tree Quotes

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

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Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Tree Quotes , Environment Quotes

Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.

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This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.

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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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The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

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The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Silence Quotes , Tree Quotes

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

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Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

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I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Tree Quotes , Valleys Quotes

It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

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Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.

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The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.

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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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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Roots Quotes , Tree Quotes