Virginia Woolf Quotes, Tree Quotes

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

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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

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

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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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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

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

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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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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

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

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The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

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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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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

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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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According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not born in the royal palace but in a park, under a sala tree. He attained complete enlightenment under the bodhi tree and left this earth to enter Parinirvana, again, between three sala trees. It would seem that the Buddha was very fond of trees.

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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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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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