“ I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 110
“ My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust. ”
- Ron Reagan- Copy
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“ To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be. ”
- Agnes de Mille- Copy
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“ But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest. ”
- John Gay- Copy
- 3.7K
“ A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high. ”
- Fiona Macleod- Copy
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“ Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. ”
- Hamlin Garland- Copy
- 654
“ The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in — telephonic, technological and relational — to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation… ”
- William James- Copy
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“ That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds. ”
- Lydia M. Child- Copy
- 115
“ When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up. When we dig roots, we make little holes. When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pine nuts. We don't chop down the trees… ”
- Wintu Woman- Copy
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