Top 34 Quotes About Tree Trunks
#1. Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot.
Anthony Doerr
#2. Tree trunks are composed of layers of growth. Meaningful expressions are composed of layers of words. Say something meaningful.
D'Andre Lampkin
#3. For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.
Franz Kafka
#4. In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#5. I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.
Agyness Deyn
#6. The air had lost its icy feel, but now a thin, sickly mist clung to everything, wrapping around tree trunks and moving over the ground in visible tides.
Erika Johansen
#7. But living alone forever and ever, among the quietly sleeping tree trunks, with animals that ran away, with whom one could not speak - that would be unbearably sad.
Hermann Hesse
#8. They also found the cocooned dragons. They had no idea that was what they were, of course. They thought ... who knows what they thought at first? Perhaps they seemed like massive sections of tree trunks. So they refer to it: wizardwood.
Robin Hobb
#9. Everything in her wanted to run -fly back to California, back to her quiet existence working among strangers. Hiding out in the folds of tree trunks and tropical petals, tucked away safely among so many foreign plants and people.
Alice Sebold
#10. All we have observed is where moths do not spend the day. In 25 years we have found only two betularia on the tree trunks or walls adjacent to our traps (one on an appropriate background and one not), and none elsewhere
Cyril Clarke
#11. Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. I have always been very interested in landscape ... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest - tree trunks, the growth of branches from the trunk, each finding its own individual air-space.
Henry Moore
#13. Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.
Ambrose Bierce
#14. If morality is extinguished, there is no human being left.
Gitta Sereny
#15. In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#16. We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.
Anneli Rufus
#17. The life of this world is wind
Windblown we come, and windblown we go away.
All that we look on is windfall.
All we remember is wind.
Charles Wright
#18. To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.
Ruskin Bond
#19. And he has been a good son to me. I hope he proves ... worthy
Khaled Hosseini
#20. He said the measure of the man is in those decisions. Do you keep yourself and your family safe in harbor, always? Or do you move forward and brave the storms?
Emery Lord
#21. Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!
Jules Verne
#22. Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.
Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.
Their language has been lost.
But not the gestures.
Vera Nazarian
#23. The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.
H.P. Lovecraft
#24. What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.
Roger L'Estrange
#25. 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.
Diana Gabaldon
#26. I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.
Jim McKelvey
#28. Good medicine always tastes bad.
Ron Hall
#30. If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#31. We've got to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election.
Jeb Bush
#32. People can easily make millions of dollars without much work in America.
Jason Calacanis
#34. People don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.
Chester Elijah Branch
