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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.

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,...

Quotes by Nalini Nadkarni

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...

Quotes by Michael Winter

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

Quotes by Huey Newton

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

Art Quotes

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the quote about trees encircling the globe mean?
It imagines trees creating art and circling the globe repeatedly, using an exaggerated image to suggest there may be other quiet forces at work inside us, much like plants growing steadily inside a prison yard.
How is 'encircle' used in the quote about Beaumont-Hamel?
That quote describes trees imported from Newfoundland and planted to encircle the site, turning old trenches under French farmland into a memorial park, an image about nature quietly reclaiming a hard history.
What is the meaning behind 'walls, bars, and guns cannot encircle an idea'?
This quote argues that physical barriers can never truly contain a people's convictions, suggesting that ideas and hope survive even under strict confinement.
Do any of these quotes connect encircling to kindness?
Yes, one quote compares mercy to the sky embracing the world or the sun shining on everyone equally, saying mercy must encircle both friend and foe alike.
Is 'encircle' mostly used literally or figuratively in this set?
It's mostly figurative. Even the tree-planting quotes lean into symbolism about memory and renewal, tying back to broader ideas about what can't be torn Down by force.

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