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  • There is only a policeman in front of something you have need for and don't have access to, so you put a guard there... But if orange trees and apple trees grew all over the place, you couldn't sell them.

  • My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.

  • Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit appear at the same time, full of refreshment for sense and for soul.

  • If orange trees grew all over the country, you couldn't sell oranges. Do you understand that? So, all our decision making is based upon scarcity or the availability of resources. If we have a shortage of any kind of resource, we put all the labs to work on making substitute materials. People always worry about 'What if we run out of a certain material?', but we have enough technology today to make thousands of different substitutes.

  • Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.

    Ernest Bramah (1936). “The Kai Lung Omnibus”
  • Time will come; we will plant trees to other planets! I see the orange trees and the cherries in the far lands beyond the earth.

  • There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account, unless you can imagine apple and orange trees with Nike sneakers on their roots, racing past the magnolias and primitive mammals, leaving the ginkgoes back there with the dinosaurs when the Flood waters began to rise.

    Nike   Past   Order  
  • But what is to be done? Is it possible to infect ourselves on purpose just in order to have the satisfaction of dying beautifully and tranquilly? No! What is to be done? We must live while we are alive, eat dry bread if there is no roast beef, know many women if it is not possible to love a woman, and, in general, we must not dream about orange trees and palms, when under foot are snowdrifts and the cold tundra.

  • Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child.

    Mom   Daughter   Baby  
  • I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.

    Dog   Children   Book  
    Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.64, Vintage
  • You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

    Horse   Lying   Taken  
    Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2020, Delphi Classics
  • Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.

  • A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.

    Nature   Men   Garden  
    Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.26
  • Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

    Love   Life   Wedding  
  • Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?

    Pablo Neruda (2001). “Libro de Las Preguntas”, p.13, Copper Canyon Press
  • I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

    Dream   Orange   Tree  
    Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot (1995). “Berthe Morisot”, p.199, Univ of California Press
  • My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed and out of order, dogs barking from behind fences meant to keep out intruders. It's not the place that impoverishes me but I who bring my own sense of poverty, of loss, to the place. It's a sense of near nothingness, as though I were not so much a blank slate as an erased chalkboard, still bearing illegible smudges of smoothed-over writing.

  • A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.

    Toni Morrison (1987). “Tar Baby”, New Amer Library
  • Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

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