Quotes About Buildings And Trees

#1. Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your life's journey and play on.

Suzy Kassem

#2. Summer sky swallowed colour, but the sky of late August made colour ricochet back to earth, and there were sharp edges on all the buildings and curbs and even on the leaves of the trees and on the impatiens in the flowerbeds of all the towns through which Wayne travelled to reach Wally Michelin.

Kathleen Winter

#3. Nature is an increasingly influential part of building design - we are being guided by trees, rather than overwhelming them. New architecture is finding innovative methods to incorporate natural landscapes into, onto, and around buildings.

Marc Kushner

#4. Do you really think anyone in this world, compares to you in my eyes?

S.C. Stephens

#5. The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.

Juvenal

#6. Around, beyond the trees, were the buildings. There you really did have an idea of the city as something made by man, and not as something that had just grown by itself and was simply there.

V.S. Naipaul

#7. The buildings appear to be glued together, mostly small houses and apartment blocks that looked nervous. There is murky snow spread out like carpet. There is concrete, empty hat-stand trees, and gray air.

Markus Zusak

#8. A fresh breeze danced lightly through the trees, and the odd sensation that all the buildings were quietly humming

Douglas Adams

#9. I'm not good with hospitals. The endless buildings, trees dotted around like apologies, and inside, it's job functions you can't understand and that air of incomprehensible busyness. Curtained-off beds and death settling like falling snow.

Harry Bingham

#10. Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. It was as if the trees had slowly begun to consume the buildings over the years, swallowing them up brick by brick. The sealed empty darkness of the structures gave them an extra eerie effect, as they almost glowed under the moonlight.

Jason Medina

#12. In a sort of slow flash, Henrietta had her first open view of Paris - watery sky, wet light, light water, frigid, dark-inky buildings, spans of bridges, trees. This open light gash across Paris faded at each end. It was not exactly raining.

Elisabeth Bowen

#13. We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.

Ronald Reagan

#14. Twitter seems like a busman's holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I'll just stick with my 24/7 webcam. I'm old-fashioned that way.

Tina Fey

#15. Mumbai is different! It's busy, it's dusty, it's posh, it's different from everything I've ever known. You can barely see the sky, hidden behind the tall buildings, the moon seems so detached, the trees look indifferent and distant.

Debalina Haldar

#16. Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

Julie Andrews Edwards

#17. What set's us apart can sometimes feel like a burden. and it's not. alot of the time , it's what makes you great.

Emma Stone

#18. Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

Charles Dudley Warner

#19. Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?

Thomas Love Peacock

#20. In all these sights I achieve solace only in bringing forth trees, picturing them blooming like smoke from the roofs of gutted buildings, dreaming of what a fine and picturesque pile of rubble this city will someday make.

Tod Wodicka

#21. Journal writing is, foremost, a way to order and reframe perspective.

Alexandra Johnson

#22. When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

Ban Ki-moon

#23. For, though sympathy can't alter facts, it can make them more bearable.

Bram Stoker

#24. Places are people as well as rocks, trees and buildings. Places are moments in time.

A.J. Dalton

#25. The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

Lord Acton

#26. You must strive with all possible care to please God in such a manner as neither to do nor behold anything, without first consulting Him, and in everything to seek Him alone and His glory.

Alphonsus Rodriguez

#27. We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

William McDonough

#28. My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up in the morning-free, to feel the trees, the grass, the water, sky or buildings, people-everything that affects us; and to photograph that which I saw and have always felt.

Harry Callahan

#29. If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks - that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

Robert Baden-Powell

#30. I maintained a tactical silence. When you maintain a tactical silence and look people right in the eye, as if drinking in their words, they talk. People like to be listened to, as every researcher knows
every researcher, every writer, every spy.

Michel Houellebecq

#31. On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#32. I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

Gary Cherone

#33. Big trees grow from sprouts, tall buildings rise from mounds of earth; the loftiest heights start at your feet.

Lao-Tzu