Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Clouds Quotes, Tree Quotes

Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--

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LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

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If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

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Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

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Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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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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The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

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Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

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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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A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

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

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From a withered tree, a flower blooms

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

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Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.

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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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Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

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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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A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

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