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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I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.

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Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

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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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Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

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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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We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.

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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

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

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Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

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

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Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis. 'I feel so rotten about myself. I don't produce as much acorns as the one next to me.'

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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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A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.

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

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

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Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

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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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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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