Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Tree Quotes, Shadow Quotes

Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

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

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The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.

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

Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?

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"One impulse from a vernal wood

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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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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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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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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

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All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

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Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

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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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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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There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

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One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.

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The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?

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Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

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Would there be trees if we didn't see them?

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Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

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