Be mine that silent calm repast, A conscience cheerful to the last: That tree which bears immortal fruit, Without a canker at the root; That friend which never fails the just, When other friends desert their trust.
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.
Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise. " So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.
Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ. . . Boxes, cases, chests, cupboards, and ovens represent the uterus. . . Rooms in dreams are usually women. . . Many landscapes in dreams, especially any containing breidges or wooded hills, may clearly be recognized as descriptions of the genitals.
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.
Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.
Is there some particular reason that you're here?". . . "Not this again. " "Not what again?" said Clary. "Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house. " Simon pointed at Jace.
I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.
I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.
So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.
It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.
I knew he wouldn't come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of him to me of what he looked like: lithe, gray, yellow-eyed. I would pass back images of my own, of a wolf on the edge of the woods, silent and cautious, watching me. The images, clear as the slender-leaved trees in front of me, made finding him seem urgent, but I didn't know how to begin to look.