Tree Tops Quotes

• Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.

  Bokar Rinpoche

  Love, Compassion, Bird

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• Ah! the year is slowly dying,
  And the wind in tree-top sighing,
  Chant his requiem.
  Thick and fast the leaves are falling,
  High in air wild birds are calling,
  Nature's solemn hymn.

  Mary Weston Fordham

  Fall, Air, Years

  Mary Weston Fordham, “Passing Of The Old Year”

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• Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth
  Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,--
  Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,--
  Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.

  Bayard Taylor

  Blue, Color, Tree

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.33

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• One day the wind blew through the town, and oh, how merry it was! It whistled down the chimneys, and scampered round the corners, and sang in the tree tops. "Come and dance, come and dance, come and dance with me," that is what it seemed to say.

  Maud Lindsay

  Wind, Tree, One Day

  Maud Lindsay (1913). “A story garden for little children”

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• The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Names, Wings, Rose

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1971). “Collected poems”, Not Avail

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• A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And arrows are no use against dragons. And they're not at all afraid of fire." "With your Majesty's leave-" began Reepicheep. "No, Reepicheep," said the King very firmly, "you are not to attempt a single combat with it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beach, Kings, Fire

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above the tossing tree tops with withering leaves, and the smoky chimneys, is a poor thing for our eyes to gaze at, or our hearts to love, or our hands to toil on.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Life, Heart, Eye

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
  Just like the ones I used to know,
  Where the tree tops glisten
  And children listen
  To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

  Irving Berlin

  Christmas, Dream, Xmas

  White Christmas (1942 song)

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• Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o clock scholar blow off his legs and then watch him holler. Rockaby baby in the tree top don’t stop a bomb or you’ll probably flop. Now I lay me down to sleep my bombproof cellars good and deep but if I’m killed before I wake remember god its for your sake amen.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Wise, Baby, Sleep

  Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.189, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not. But, as I put down my glass I remember; I am engaged to be married. I am to dine with my friends tonight. I am Bernard.

  Virginia Woolf

  Adventure, Glasses, Tree

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.693, Wordsworth Editions

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• Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Nature, Real

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.287

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