Pines Quotes

We met among tall pines, separate blood, divided by arms and hands and hearts and lungs that all held the same wounds - mine — Anne Valente

It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines ... a curious transfusion of courage. — Aldo Leopold

A practical girl never pines; she takes action. — Adriana Trigiani

For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing. — James Elroy Flecker

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. — Robert Frost

Jealousy is like a hot pepper. Use it mildly, and you add spice to the relationship. Use too much of it and it can burn. — Ayala Malakh-Pines

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning. — Vincent Van Gogh

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. — John Muir

Stay curious, stay weird, stay kind and don't let anyone ever tell you you aren't smart or brave or worthy enough. — Alex Hirsch

Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you. — Angela Carter

Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blue
Farragut will ever stand, alma mater true — Bruce A. Sarte

Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life. — Edward Dahlberg

Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord. — John Muir

I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter. — Alice Notley

And maybe you can't know me now.
Maybe I'm just blood. Whatever that's for. — Alice Notley

Winter crescent resting in the high pine bough - you fly through the woods like a lone snow bird ... — John Geddes

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. — Thomas Adams

we might as well be afloat as earthbound, the heave and fall beneath me the rise of planking, and the sound of the pines the wind in our sails. — Diana Gabaldon

Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow. — Richard H. Davis

Once upon a time, I did not live in Shady Pines. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was. — Elizabeth Scott

Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines. — Edgar Lee Masters

ten years of whorehouse joy I'm alone now in the mountains the pines are like a jail the wind scratches my skin Ikky — Stephen Berg

Far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die. — Isabel Allende

In order to burn out, a person needs to have been on fire at one time. — Ayala Pines

Moonlight and the murmur of pines blended together so that one could hardly tell which was light and which was sound. — L.M. Montgomery

O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree,
So scant of grass, so profligate of pines — Jean Toomer

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sun
Setting
Through
Pines Trees
At the edge
Of town
Makes me squint and
Smie — Matthew Quick

The search for meaning was the cornerstone of human disquiet — Blake Crouch

I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines. — Ikkyu

Moonless winter night-
a billow of rising fog
hides the distant pines — Lenard Moore

The fragrance of pine resin is frankincense poured out - a balm of stars and snow and moonlit nights — John Geddes

In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness. — Richard Louv

There is no more unhappy being under the sun than a fetishist who pines for a boot and has to content himself with an entire woman. — Karl Kraus

Wind blew snow crystals back and forth between the graves. The ancient pines creaked overhead. — Mike Bond

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes. — Richard Steele

The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines.
Long night clear evening
what are they for? — Akinari Ueda

The hill pines were sighing,
O'ercast and chill was the day;
A mist in the valley lying
Blotted the pleasant May. — Robert Bridges

There is no scent in it so wholesome as that of the pines, nor any fragrance so penetrating and restorative as the life-everlasting in high pastures. — Henry David Thoreau

Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable. — Nathan Fielder

I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own. — Alice Notley

I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army. — Henry David Thoreau

The moon twangs its silver strings;
The river swoons into town;
The wind beds down in the pines,
Covers itself with stars. — George Elliott Clarke

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich. — Samuel Johnson

If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines. — Robert Breault

Woody Pines is the best band I ever heard in my life I swear. I'm their biggest fan now! — Billy Joe Shaver

If falling in love is like taking off or flying, then love is like landing. — Ayala Malakh-Pines

Oregon welcomed me like a beloved child, enfolded me in her cool arms, shushed my turbulent thoughts, and promised peace through her whispering pines. — Colleen Houck

He could not tell all of the California pines apart, the gray pine from the coulter, the bushop from the knobcone and the Monterey. — Tracy Chevalier

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact. — Henry David Thoreau

I love all trees, but I am in love with pines. — Aldo Leopold

Jealousy is indeed the shadow of love. — Ayala Malakh-Pines

Beyond, pines hold sermons. — Boris Pasternak

In winter, when the dismal rain
Comes down in slanting lines,
And Wind, that grand old harper, smote
His thunder-harp of pines. — Alexander Smith