William Wordsworth Quotes, Tree Quotes, Decay Quotes

This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

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

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

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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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The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.

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

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

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

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

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

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Memories Quotes , Tree Quotes

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

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Plant no other tree before the vine.

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At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

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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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

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

The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

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