Quotes About Sitting Under A Tree

#1. I wrote a poem once - a simple thing, but instinct with longing - while sitting under a tree and listening to the cooing of a pigeon. But that was in the afternoon. My only longing now was for a gun. Three

Jerome K. Jerome

#2. I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

John Fogerty

#3. Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.

Carl Hiaasen

#4. I learned more sitting under a tree than I did in a classroom. The teacher told me God did not exist; the tree, and everything around it, told me He did.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. Without the sleeping bag I'm just somebody up early in the morning, sitting under a tree. With the sleeping bag I'm nobody up early, sitting under a tree: a slight, but important difference in how I'll be perceived.

Craig Stone

#6. The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel

Orlando Bloom

#7. There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.

Nikki Sixx

#8. Mitchell sanders was sitting under a banyan tree and using a thumbnail to pry off all the body lice, working slowly, carefully depositing them in a USO envelope. When he was done he sealed the envelope, wrote 'Free' in the right hand corner, and sent it to his draft board in ohio.

Tim O'Brien

#9. You think, because you are sitting in a tree and it is raining and you have not eaten and you have not slept, that you are uncomfortable? You are following a clear path, and that is comfortable!

Sigal Samuel

#10. A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its own wings.

Anonymous

#11. It still hurt her to see their poems before her, printed in the curving Yeged-dai script, using Yegedin forms and the images so beloved of the Yegedin: the single pebble, the grasshopper at twilight, the song of a heartbroken lark sitting in a bent tree.

Yoon Ha Lee

#12. We've been sitting in our tree chirping like foolish birds for over a century now, wondering why no other birds answered. The galactic skies are full of hawks, that's why. Planetisms that don't know enough to keep quiet, get eaten.

Greg Bear

#13. You don't get to a place by constantly moving, even if your journey is only one of sitting still and waiting. Every once in a while you have to stop your tracks and admire the view, a small cloud an a tree outside your window

Rachel Joyce

#14. The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.

Shannon Hale

#15. When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

Ralph Marston

#16. Talk about songs that make me cry: Track 7 on the 'Phineas and Ferb' soundtrack, 'Summer (Where Do We Begin?).' When you get to the part about sitting with your brother underneath the shade of a big tree in the backyard, ohmygod. Turn on the waterworks.

Christopher Gorham

#17. I shall go and sit under a tree ... . Which tree, Mma? ... Oh, there are many trees in this life, she said. It does not matter which tree you choose, as long as you choose the right one.

Alexander McCall Smith

#18. As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

George Orwell

#19. I remember sitting and meditating beside a slow flowing river in India, and I got the feeling that this river could teach me all the secrets of the mystery of life. If we learn to surrender to a stone, a flower, to a man, to a woman, or a river, it becomes a door to the Whole.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#20. Sitting under the candlenut tree in the courtyard is pleasant in the afternoon. Laced in shadows, frangipani & coral hibiscus ward away the memory of recent evil. The sisters go about their duties, Sister Martinique tends her vegetables, the cats enact their feline comedies & tragedies.

David Mitchell

#21. I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#22. If you are sitting on a felled tree in a pine forest enjoying the sunshine you can easily forget what time it is. Not that you could forget your gold watch, just the time of day.

Elfriede Jelinek

#23. I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But now I think about just sitting in a tree and doing nothing all day and probably not even seeing a deer. Not moving and sitting in a tree? That seems rough.

Joel Stein

#24. And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly

Munro Leaf

#25. An eleven-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree.

Betty Smith

#26. Sitting here, beneath this majestic oak tree under the hot afternoon sun in the middle of nowhere, the concept of time, present, and future, were all blurred. What was time if you didn't know whether you had it?
When you weren't sure what you had to live for? - Skylla Warden

Rachael Wade

#27. Gently I stir a white feather fan,
With open shirt sitting in a green wood.
I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone;
A wind from the pine-tree trickles on my bare head.

Li Bai

#28. How could the war have any semblance of reality when you found yourself sitting under a plane tree in a playground, in the provincial calm of an early afternoon?

Patrick Modiano

#29. She uses that shampoo," he sighed.
"What shampoo?"
"The one with honey in it."
Ric's eyes crossed. "Oh, my God."
"She was sitting in that tree, her leg bleeding out, and all I could think about was how good her hair smelled.

Shelly Laurenston

#30. Loretta started belting out a song: "Row, row, row your boat, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G !

Joel N. Ross

#31. No church or synagogue pew can produce a higher awareness of God than sitting at the base of a tree and observing His creation.

Donald L. Hicks

#32. Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Warren Buffett

#33. Freedom may be mankind's natural state, but so is sitting in a tree eating your dinner while it is still wriggling.

Terry Pratchett

#34. Yeah, you're sitting in a tree because you're fine. That's easy to see. I can't believe this is Maximum Ride, destroyer of despots, warrior hottie, leader of the flock! All you need now to make yourself more pathetic is a pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream!

James Patterson

#35. Karina and Tho-orn, sitting in a tree-ee. Kay-eye-ess-ess-eye-en-gee.

John Flanagan

#36. Why was she sitting in a tree?"
"She was hiding from the organ thieves."
Ric blinked. "Sorry?"
"Do you really want me to explain it?"
"Not particularly.

Shelly Laurenston

#37. You can't see a forest when you're sitting in a tree. You can, however, describe the leaves. That's how you learn to see.

Barbara Ware Holmes

#38. I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

Fennel Hudson

#39. I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

Geri Halliwell

#40. Marya watched from the upper floor as once again the birds gathered in the great oak tree, sniping and snapping for the last autumn nuts, stolen from squirrels and hidden in bark-cracks, which every winged creature knows are the most bitter of all nuts, like old sorrows sitting heavy on the tongue.

Catherynne M Valente

#41. Johnny and Marissa, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes love, then comes marriage. Then comes an abrupt, tragic miscarriage. Then comes blame, then comes despair. Two hearts damaged beyond repair... Johnny leaves Marissa, and takes the tree. D-I-V-O-R-C-E.

Kris Wilson

#42. When I was 5, I did a commercial for Whirlpool sitting on a tree stump eating a popsicle that dripped all over my clothes.

Drake Bell

#43. Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. - Warren Buffett

Lora M. Cecere

#44. She's a blackbird sitting in a tree staring out at the world, daring the wind to come and knock her off the swaying bough.

J.A. Huss

#45. The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

Tom T. Hall

#46. She was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.

Lewis Carroll

#47. I sit cross-legged on the rock The valleys and streams are cold and damp Sitting quietly is beautiful The cliffs are lost in mist and fog I rest happily in this place At dusk the tree shadows are low I look into my mind A white lotus emerges from the dark mud

Hanshan

#48. We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!

Ram Dass

#49. My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore ... hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.

Errol Flynn

#50. Way up in my tree I'm sitting by my fire
Wond'rin' where in this world might you be
And knowin' all the time you're still roamin' the countryside
Do you still think about me?

Jimi Hendrix

#51. Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.

Julia Hill

#52. She remembered sitting beneath the tree on a hot July day with someone who looked at her with a longing that took everything else away. And it had been at that moment that she'd first fallen in love.

Nicholas Sparks

#53. Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, "What road do I take?"
The cat asked, "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it really doesn't matter, does it?

Lewis Carroll

#54. I passed a group of theater students or hippies (sometimes it's hard to tell) sitting in a circle under an oak tree.

Ellie Alexander