
“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”
Variant: It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985)
“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”
Variant: It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.
" Tree at My Window http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tree-at-my-window-2/" (1928)
1920s
“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.”
Source: Taking Care of Terrific
“I'm coming back as a cat or a tree or a molecule in my next life.”
16 February 2015 https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666/status/567542121033236483
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/95ecdfa2-4be8-11de-b827-00144feabdc0.html
“Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees”
Source: Between the Lines
“God gave us these things to use. After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.”
Attributed in Setting the Captives Free (1990) by Austin Miles, and widely repeated after appearing in "The Godly Must Be Crazy", by Glenn Scherer in Grist magazine (28 October 2004) http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2004/10/27/scherer-christian/index.html. Grist afterwards retracted and apologized for Scherer's comment, noting that the quotation appears nowhere in Watt's Congressional testimony or any other source it could find. Watt has responded:
: I never said it. Never believed it. Never even thought it. I know no Christian who believes or preaches such error. The Bible commands conservation — that we as Christians be careful stewards of the land and resources entrusted to us by the Creator.
Misattributed