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Encircle Quotes: Surrounding, Protecting, Containing

What surrounds us shapes us

These encircle quotes range from literal imagery, like trees planted to help Change a barren battlefield into a living memorial, to broader ideas about what can and cannot be contained.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Change
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Nov 07, 2020

If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

Quotes by Nalini Nadkarni

Grass
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Nov 07, 2020

Beaumont-Hamel sits within a thousand acres of French agriculture. The trenches are under this blanket of grass. In the 1920s, a park was established here and trees from Newfoundland imported to encircle the battlefield so you get the feeling of being within a copse of woods.

Quotes by Michael Winter

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Quotes by Huey Newton

Firmament
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Nov 07, 2020

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Live
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Nov 07, 2020

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

Quotes by Diane Ackerman

Enable
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Nov 07, 2020

I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.

Quotes by Dennis Kucinich

Others use encircle to talk about Art and imagination stretching far beyond physical limits.

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