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I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.
Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.
I don't believe I could live in Iran again. A tree, once uprooted from the earth, is very difficult to plant again.
Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should not be without it.
You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.
It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.
It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.
The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.
The world is a dangerous place, full of people who don't trust each other. This is why I am staying up in this tree.
In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.
Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.
A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.
According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.
The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.
A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.
The condom has saved so many lives and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.
Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.
My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!
I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.
I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.
The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.
I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.
The condom has saved so many lives, and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.
Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.
If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.