#tree

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#cut #down #kind #mount #nixon

Trees're always a relief, after people. ↗

— David Mitchell

#forest #humanity #nature #trees #nature

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right. ↗

— Alan Lee

#nature #trees #nature

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. ↗

— Willa Cather

#prairie #trees #nature

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#trees #nature

By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#respect

Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us. ↗

— Brian Jacques

#emotion #emotions #flowers #fruit #growing

When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air. ↗

— Jodi Thomas

#heartbreak #trees #harmony

Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said. By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her his arm in splendid dignity ↗

— Victoria Hanley

#seer #sword #tree #dignity

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#democracy #elections #government #greed #wall-street