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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We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

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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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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

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Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

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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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What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?

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I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.

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A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.

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

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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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All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

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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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Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

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Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

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Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

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The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.

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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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