Victor Hugo Quotes, Fall Quotes, Tree Quotes

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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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Fall Quotes , Tree Quotes

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

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Funny Quotes , Tree Quotes

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

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Snow Quotes , Tree Quotes

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

How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Roots Quotes , Tree Quotes

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Spring Quotes , Tree Quotes

Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

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Tags : Adam Ross Quotes , Tree Quotes

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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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Tree Quotes , Soil Quotes

A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Tree Quotes

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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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Tree Quotes , Enlightenment Quotes

Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Eye Quotes , Tree Quotes

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'

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Tags : Aesop Quotes , Dust Quotes , Tree Quotes

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Lying Quotes , Tree Quotes

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

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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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Tree Quotes , Guilt Quotes

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Roots Quotes , Tree Quotes

Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Giving Quotes , Tree Quotes

So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.

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Tags : Bob Marley Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Tree Quotes

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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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Sky Quotes , Tree Quotes

A brotherhood of venerable trees.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Brother Quotes , Tree Quotes