Facts," murmured Basil, like one mentioning some strange, far-off animals, "how facts obscure the truth. I may be silly—in fact, I'm off my head—but I never could believe in that man—what's his name, in those capital stories?—Sherlock Holmes....
I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.
I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.
The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.
Come with me to howling tree?" "What?" "Howling tree. It's a place a found. Come on
I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under every tree is a shadow, right? So, then, what makes night? I'll tell you: shadows crawling out from under five billion trees...
It is true that our everyday view of the world is not quite naively realistic, but that is what it would like to be. Common-sense is naively realistic wherever it does not think that there is some positive reason why it should cease to be so. And thi...
Dorothy: [Reaches to pick an apple from the apple tree, the tree grabs the apple and slaps her hand] Ouch! Apple Tree: What'd'ya think you're doing? Dorothy: We've been walking a long ways and I was hungry and... did you say something? Apple Tree: Sh...
Don't show me the palm tree, show me the dates.
The tree that is not taller than you cannot shade you.
One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.
The elephant that is stuck in the mud will tear down the tree with it.
By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.
A man without a woman is a tree without leaves and branches.
When the tree falls everyone runs to cut the branches.
You've got to stare the cat down out of the tree.
Men will only throw stones at trees that are laden with fruit.
The tree casts its shadow on everything, even upon the woodcutter.
A little axe can cut down a big tree.
There are men who walk through the woods and see no trees.
Although we experience our nonphysical levels of self as potential, they are also functional in our lives. An acorn is a potential oak tree, but the oak tree could be seen as the essence of the acorn, guiding its development into the oak tree.
