David Mitchell Quotes

I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.

The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.

I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.

Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves.

I love the quiet forest that stands between my lab and my home.

If more people were screamin', I could relax.

It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.

Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.

We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center of the meadow and dart into the woods.

This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was full of Sap, full of Leaves, and full of Boughs: But now, in vain does the busy Art of Man pretend to vie with Nature, by tying that withered Bundle of Twigs to its sapless Trunk: It is at best but the Reverse of what it was; a Tree turned upside down, the Branches on the Earth, and the Root in the Air.

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

This feels good being back in Michigan. You know, the trees are the right height.

The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.

Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.

If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.

in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.

I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

Look at the flowers-for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!

I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.

i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people