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You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees. — Wilhelm II

If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature. — Robert M. Hensel

Maeve could have lost a race with a tree — Michael J. Sullivan

I used to picture us as two leaves, blowing miles apart in the wind yet bound by the deep tangled roots of the tree from which we had both fallen. — Khaled Hosseini

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree.
Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest. — Takuan Soho

The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come. — Steve Farrar

I'm in a small room with pine walls and floorboards. Even the trim is pine, so. Either I was eaten by a tree or I'm in a cabin — Veronica Rossi

They're in trouble, Kaz had thought. Or you were dead wrong about Matthias, and you're about to pay for all of those talking tree jokes. — Leigh Bardugo

Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree. — Ed Coan

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck. — John Knowles

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The bark on the tree was just a little softer. — Louis Sachar

The life-tree of practice is single-minded application. — Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye

There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree. — Carolyn Hax

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful, says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example. — Samuel Smiles

A tree that falls makes a lot of noise. But a woodland that grows and spreads its roots, does it quietly. — Cristiane Serruya

Oh sure, I have a few black people in my family tree. They're probably still hanging there. — Zach Braff

Have I told you about Christ?" "Ghost-born-man-walking-on-water-telling-stories-dead-on-tree. — Robert Holdstock

Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said that if he had eight hours to cut down a tree, he'd spend several of these hours sharpening his ax. — Irvin D. Yalom

The night was a runny, watercolor black, rain sighing high in the tree tops, rustling on the pavement. — Lauren Gilley

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at? — Ronald Reagan

Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree. — Maya Angelou

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision. — Niklaus Wirth

Nevermore Tree was gargantuan, a word which here means 'having attained an inordinate amount of botanical volume. — Lemony Snicket

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way. — Muhammad

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun. — Chinua Achebe

It must be nice to fly."
"Is that sarcasm?"
"No. If I could fly, I would live in tree. Stare down at everyone ... quietly hating them all. — G.A. Aiken

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees. — Constantin Brancusi

My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people ... " — Wallace Stevens

Greet each man with peace, and leave each man with love. Ask yourself - One more enemy, or one more dove? — Suzy Kassem

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top. — Confucius

From a withered tree, a flower blooms — Gautama Buddha

A bloody guy in overalls, wearing a straw hat, began chasing us. He held a saw, pointing it at us. We were gonna die! --The Body By the Tree — Yawatta Hosby

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist. — Elton John

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. — H.P. Lovecraft

In snowbound, voiceless, mountain depths, to herald spring, pine trees sound in tune. — Princess Shikishi

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My religion is the Earth, man. I believe in trees. — Shailene Woodley

Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed. — Jaclyn Smith

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now. — George Perkins Marsh

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. — William Law

To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real. — Anthony Marra

After Elner Shimfissle accidentally poked that wasps' nest up in her fig tree, the last thing she remembered was thinking "Uh-oh. — Fannie Flagg

If you see a red tree, paint it bright red. — Paul Cezanne

He was not afraid. Not any more. Fear had died on the tree, as Shadow had died. There was no fear left, no hatred, no pain. Nothing left but essence. — Neil Gaiman

You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus. — Donella Meadows

These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady — Chamillionaire

You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is ... — Ram Dass

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger. — Marilyn Manson

Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully. — Wynn Bullock

And the tree was happy — Shel Silverstein

Home isn't a place. It's not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist? — Richard Louv

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree? — Douglas Wilson

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks. — Robert Browning

It all happened," Lipton summed up, "because Shifty saw a tree almost a mile away that hadn't been there the day before. — Stephen E. Ambrose

When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples. — George Horace Lorimer

Every SEED contains a Tree.No seed no harvest, no sowing no reaping, if u talk of day is 'cos there is nite. Seed-time comes before harvest. — Ikechukwu Joseph

...nothing is taken that cannot be found again... (Tree of Life) — Elita Daniels

Even monkeys fall out of trees. — J. F. Lawton

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails. — George Carlin

To know something about trees-about even one tree-is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in it. — Gerald Jonas

It doesn't mean shit to a tree. — Marty Balin

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening — Albert Einstein

For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core. — H. Rider Haggard

How do you see this tree? Is it green?
... Don't be afraid to paint it as green as possible. — Paul Gauguin

But Owen, he hath not a farmer's heart-/
This apple falls quite near his father's tree
- Beru — Ian Doescher

The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood. — Chanakya

Rain does not fall on one tree. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me. — Mary Carolyn Davies

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower. — Sylvia Plath

This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates. — Lauren Oliver

It is also to be noticed, that the old man is distinguished by his works, as a tree is by its fruits. — John Calvin

someday i will walk
under the soul-blossom tree
with my hand eternally woven in yours. — Sanober Khan

There's nothing that keeps it's youth
So far as I know, but a tree and the truth
— Ogden Nash

A single tree in the middle of nowhere means resistance and victory! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place? — Robert Frost

Every day, I get e-mails from kids who want a tree - a world away from the adult world. — Jean Craighead George

I feel safer when you're here. You're so big and sturdy, like a beautiful tree I can lean on and not knock over. — Karen Cushman

This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees. — Saigyo

Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its own wings. — Anonymous

I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden. — Moon Unit Zappa

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The roots of the strongest tree grow deep. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. — Maimonides

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement. — Jonathan Lethem

What had to move - a leaf of the chestnut tree, for instance - moved. — Marcel Proust

a willow tree was weeping from the heavy rain, a coy pond nearly overflowing. — Marissa Meyer

The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it. — George Herbert

Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible. — Euell Gibbons

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow. — Abraham Lincoln

Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way. — Margaret Craven

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness. — Michael Pollan

Christmas is Christ-love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

How about that one?"
"That fat thing?"
"Amber, it is a Christmas tree. It is supposed to be fat and jolly looking, like Santa Clause. — Sarah Holman

To abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support. — Ovadia Yosef

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket. — Andy Pick