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Trees Quotes

With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country's inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem - and largely a hindrance, not an asset.

Man Animal People Trees American

Trees are being saved because of the Kindle.

Trees Being Because Saved Kindle

I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Friend Childhood Trees Summer Why

I grew up in the same place as my mother, seeing the same trees my mother saw when she was at work; the flowers I picked were the flowers that my grandma planted. We have different styles; I wouldn't make the same clothes that my mum made, or my grandma, but we have the same taste.

Margherita Missoni

Work Mother Flowers Trees Clothes

The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation.

Christopher Buckley

Father Trees Thought Tradition Up

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

Patience Humility Trees Meaning

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

Children Tree People Legacy Trees

I planted trees for five years in the middle of nowhere, but a lot of Canadian college students do that for money. You go out in the forest for a summer and plant trees. You get, like, eight cents a tree, but it adds up.

Tree Money College Trees Plant You

Grey cloth coaxes the lime trees of friends shadowing berries dropped by the grateful earth.

Grateful Trees Friends Earth Grey

I grew up in the Northeast; I've seen hurricanes before and trees down and cars destroyed.

Trees Down Up Seen Destroyed Before

I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

Love Beautiful Trees House New Air

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

Adelbert von Chamisso

Trees Evening House Vanity Ready

Trees are great. Don't get me started about how clever they are, how oxygen-generous, how time-formed in inner cyclic circles, how they provide homes for myriad creatures, how - back when this country was covered in forests - the word for sky was an Old English word that meant 'tops of trees.'

Great Sky Me Trees Back Country

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against.

Beautiful I Am People Me Trees Feel

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

Life Nature Good Trees Everything

Under trees, the urban dweller might restore his troubled soul and find the blessing of a creative pause.

Blessing Soul Creative Trees Find

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

Environmental Trees Forest You Down

I'm not going to lie: I miss the grass and the trees... I miss home. On a Sunday morning, you could chill on the deck and listen to people mowing their lawns. It was very serene.

Taylor Louderman

Home Morning Lie People Trees Chill

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

Best Reading Trees House Kid Up

Obviously, movies, you're often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the trees and the cars are real. But when you're on stage, as an actor you're imagining the environment that you're in.

Rain Sun Trees Environment You Real

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

Woods Trees Learn You Find Never

One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'

Trees Back Canada Go Okay Tall

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

Radhanath Swami

Nature Mother Mind Trees Language

The ideal job letter starts with a brilliant light. Then we realize that this brilliant light is actually sunlight, shafts of it, pouring through trees onto a thick bed of pine needles. Soft dusty resin floats in the sun shafts, invitingly. The smell of pine and sap rises from the forest floor. A twig snaps underfoot.

Light Job Sun Trees Forest Sunlight

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