Observe the life like a wise tree by the side of a calm lake! Do not move; just sit and observe! Observe the Sun, observe the storms; observe the wisdom, observe the stupidities!
There are saints in the Roman Curia, among the cardinals, priests, religious, sisters and laity. They work hard, and also do things that are often hidden. I know some who concern themselves with feeding the poor or who give up their free time to work in a parish. As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise. . . a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing doesn't.
So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back.
We [The Replacements] never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that a rock and roll band gets ripped off. We've tried to shake that tree a couple of times, but what can we do? You look back, when you're sort of idle in your middle years, and think, we should have made some money.
i was momentarily sidetracked by the vision of Eric herding a cow into a trailer and driving it to the shoulder of the the interstate and shooing it into the trees.
What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?
The tree does not die, it waits.
Rest at pale evening. . . A tall slim tree. . . Night coming tenderly Black like me
The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However. . . the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen. . . and you will hear the creaking.
I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree.
Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.
If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up.
As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.
I get pissed off. I simply do not understand someone who hits a ball that lands behind a tree and can look at it and say, "Well, that's golf".
Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.
No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.