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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We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.

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

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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

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she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.

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

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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

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When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.

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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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A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.

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A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Tree Quotes , Immigration Quotes

I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie.

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Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.

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Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

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The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

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It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

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Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

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

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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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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Tree Quotes , Shade Quotes

He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

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