Top 31 Quotes About Tree Rings

#1. Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

John Green

Quotes About Tree Rings #81353
#2. Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?

Magenta Periwinkle

Quotes About Tree Rings #99966
#3. I'm nineteen tree rings and mashed acorns stop up my veins when I can't clot. Oh god, you beautiful person, I'll let you lick the salt off of my tattoos as if they were wounds, wounds made of ink and stories.

Taylor Rhodes

Quotes About Tree Rings #157126
#4. Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.

Akio Toyoda

Quotes About Tree Rings #187419
#5. The lines in the corners of her eyes spoke of years of wisdom, as a tree with the number of rings increasing with each passing year. She was a small frame of a woman with piercing eyes that suggested that they knew you, understood you even.

F.C. Malby

Quotes About Tree Rings #371173
#6. I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.

Joss Whedon

Quotes About Tree Rings #390349
#7. Technically, just like with the rings of a tree or Carbon-14, it had to be possible to measure the passage of time by the melting of vanilla ice cream.

Herman Koch

Quotes About Tree Rings #414654
#8. The wind lifts the whole branch of the poplar
carries it up and out and holds it there
while each leaf is the whole tree reaching
from its roots in the dark earth out through all
its rings of memory to where it has never been

W.S. Merwin

Quotes About Tree Rings #496462
#9. It really does look like the rings of a tree," she said. "No," said Kaz. "It looks like a target.

Leigh Bardugo

Quotes About Tree Rings #688365
#10. Carols of gladness ring from every tree.

Fanny Kemble

Quotes About Tree Rings #703511
#11. If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.

Robert M. Hensel

Quotes About Tree Rings #733224
#12. Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

Jill Lepore

Quotes About Tree Rings #770270
#13. Trees, for example, carry the memory of rainfall. In their rings we read ancient weather - storms, sunlight, and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries. A forest shares a history, which each tree remembers even after it has been felled.

Anne Michaels

Quotes About Tree Rings #780651
#14. I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.

Michael E. Mann

Quotes About Tree Rings #787721
#15. In the bush he taught the knots I use to tie my blanket to my saddle Ds also the way I stand to use a carpenter's plane and the trick of catching fish with a bush fly and a strip of greenhide these things are like the dark marks made in the rings of great trees locked forever in my daily self.

Peter Carey

Quotes About Tree Rings #884373
#16. Like rings in a large tree trunk that had been logged and exposed, every year of her life was visible in the wrinkles that lined her face, neck and arms. She was a living, breathing fossil.

S.W. Lothian

Quotes About Tree Rings #974175
#17. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings.

Tomas Transtromer

Quotes About Tree Rings #998211
#18. Our scars are like the rings in a tree trunk, showing its progress through life. How we heal and move forward through adversity . . . that is what makes the difference.

Morgan Rhodes

Quotes About Tree Rings #1050057
#19. Everyone had very uncreased necks, which meant no prolonged inclining of the head, which meant no reading. Linda's own neck looked like a finger, but she reassured herself that the creases were like tree rings marking her substance.

Tony Tulathimutte

Quotes About Tree Rings #1148601
#20. Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.

Bryan Procter

Quotes About Tree Rings #1276988
#21. Legolas was standing, gazing northwards into the darkness, thoughtful and silent as a young tree in a windless night.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Quotes About Tree Rings #1310300
#22. In New York, when a tree dies, nobody mourns that it was cut down in its prime. Nobody counts the rings, notifies the loved ones. There are other trees. We can always squeeze in one more. Mind the tourists. It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't wanna live there.

Sarah Kay

Quotes About Tree Rings #1365648
#23. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

Mary McCarthy

Quotes About Tree Rings #1419756
#24. Wisdom is a tree of slow growth; the rings around its trunk are earthly lives, and the grooves between are the periods between lives. Who grieves that an acorn is slow in becoming an oak?

Elsa Barker

Quotes About Tree Rings #1504540
#25. I'm in self-imposed exile, cradled between split branches, in my favorite tree in the woods behind school. I've been coming here every day at lunch, hiding out until the bell rings, whittling words into the branches with my pen, allowing my heart to break in private.

Jandy Nelson

Quotes About Tree Rings #1509219
#26. We always feel younger than we are. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum of them is me. The mirror sees only my latest face, while I know all my previous ones.

Tomas Transtromer

Quotes About Tree Rings #1618772
#27. The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

Haruki Murakami

Quotes About Tree Rings #1743135
#28. I am at home among trees.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Quotes About Tree Rings #1752724
#29. No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Quotes About Tree Rings #1759893
#30. He looked at me with sunken eyes, unburdened by any great curiosity and ringed in gray and dark-blue shadows that logged his hard living like tree rings.

Christopher Scotton

Quotes About Tree Rings #1766647
#31. A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like rings on a tree.

Margo Kaufman

Quotes About Tree Rings #1873094

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top