Pines Tree Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: Isabel Allende

#2. Only the soldier pines and sentinels still showed green; the broadleaf trees had donned mantles of russet and gold, or else uncloaked themselves to scratch against the sky with branches brown and bare. - Author: George R R Martin

#3. I love all trees, but I am in love with pines. - Author: Aldo Leopold

#4. Pointing to radio as an example, Illich argued that technologies become useful only when people can teach themselves about those technologies. - Author: Michael Swaine

#5. It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious. - Author: Jean De La Bruyere

#6. The heavy trees,
The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust,
The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines
Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths. - Author: Wallace Stevens

#7. I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache. - Author: Scott Patterson

#8. I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. - Author: Henry David Thoreau

#9. People do stop me a lot, and what is really very rewarding is that the ages of the people who stop me vary so widely. Surprisingly, there are a lot of young people - even children. - Author: Geraldine McEwan

#10. The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres. - Author: Steve Ovett

#11. Pines and spruces can't be sheared like yew or hemlock, but they are stately in large landscapes, where their eventual size is a plus. (But they are a nightmare in small yards, where their eventual size is like having a brontosaurus nesting in the front yard.) - Author: Cassandra Danz

#12. Towering pines and hemlocks, was it? I thought, clambering over the burled knots of a fallen tree. The monstrous trunks rose so high that the lowest limbs started twenty feet above my head. Longfellow had no idea. - Author: Diana Gabaldon

#13. O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree,
So scant of grass, so profligate of pines - Author: Jean Toomer

#14. Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those. - Author: John Mackey

#15. If you inquire into the hurt, you'll know what you're experiencing is love. - Author: Duncan Trussell

#16. The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency. - Author: Joyce Carol Oates

#17. When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own existence and that he places greater credence in his independent reasoning than in God's Word. - Author: Greg L. Bahnsen

#18. Once your baby tree is in the ground, check it daily, because the first three years are critical. Remember that you are your tree's only friend in a hostile world. - Author: Hope Jahren

#19. The 2-week delay of her letters had caused me to keep a distrustful eye on Hallie, like a star so many light years away it could have exploded long ago while we still watched its false shine. - Author: Barbara Kingsolver

#20. The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action. - Author: Lowell Milken

#21. When I stepped away from the white pine, I had the definite feeling that we had exchanged some form of life energy ... Clearly white pines and I are on the same wavelength. What I give back to the trees I cannot imagine. I hope they receive something, because trees are among my closest friends. - Author: Anne LaBastille

#22. To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching. - Author: George Bernard Shaw

#23. Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic. - Author: Stephen Mansfield

#24. Yet despite how he's drawn to danger, how it thrives within him, or maybe because of it, the dark and wicked side of me softens at the feel of his lips on my skin. - Author: A.G. Howard

#25. His blessed count'nance; here I could frequent, With worship, place by place where he voutsaf'd Presence Divine, and to my Sons relate; On this Mount he appeerd, under this Tree Stood visible, among these Pines his voice I heard, here with him at this Fountain talk'd: So - Author: John Milton