If a man loses one-third of his skin he dies; if a tree loses one-third of its bark, it too dies. If… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
“What are you doing?” Sicarius’s voice floated from his tree perch. “The usual night-watch activities.” She tried to keep her tone light.… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
“At Bramasole, the first secret spot that draws me outside is a stump and board bench on a high terrace overlooking the… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“The first seven years of the Joshua tree's life, it's just a vertical stem. No branches," she told me while we were… — Karen M. McManus Copy Share Image
Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“Now the wood in early morning was utterly silent. She walked carefully through damp leaves, around tangles of bramble and vine, trying… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“To a Boy Boy, you are a hidden watering place under the trees where, as the day darkens, gentle beasts with calm… — Mutsuo Takahashi Copy Share Image
Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements… — Egon Schiele Copy Share Image
“In a pine tree, A few yards away from my window sill, A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up… — James Wright Copy Share Image
Snowstorms may yet whiten fields and gardens, high winds may howl about the trees and chimneys, but the little blue heralds persistently… — Neltje Blanchan Copy Share Image
People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
“Savory is concerned that since tree planting sounds like a good, noncontroversial idea, governments and NGOs might rally around that when the… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Colored lights blink on and off, racing across the green boughs. Their reflections dance across exquisite glass globes and splinter into shards… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in the evening on Summer days, Even when there’s not a breeze at all, it seems Like there’s a light breeze… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange shapes: sometimes they were… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When I moved to England, at 19, I had a rude awakening. I knew it would be chilly but when I saw… — Viv Richards Copy Share Image
I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
“The tree (of Islam) is of artificial planting. Instead of containing within itself the germ of growth and adaptation to the various… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Something in one's heart takes fright, not at the thought of growing old, not at feeling one's youth used up in this… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
A new home by a gap in the Meng wall; Of the old trees, a few gnarled willows are left. Those who… — Wang Wei Copy Share Image
“A tree once saved my life. A posse was going to hang me, but this wise old oak would not let them.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“At the edge you will always remember me, at the edge you will last be remembered, where sanity and insanity come together,… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Through the white snow-gate of our ampitheatre, as through a frame we looked eastward upon the summit group; not a tree, not… — Clarence King Copy Share Image
“She felt the sap rising through the trees as the blood coursing through her body, the grass sprouting out of the forest… — Tara Heavey Copy Share Image
“Our landscapes are marked by the presence of grand trees. And what are trees, but love stories written by terra firma in… — Marie Anzalone Copy Share Image
“Mother’s estate—our estate—a thousand acres centered in a million more. Lawns the size of small prairies with grass so perfect it beckoned… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be. Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea. O, the oak… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
“it’s not until the third verse that “The Hanging Tree” begins to get unnerving. You realize the singer of the song is… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Chinese bamboo. A tree that grows really tall - to a height of over eighty feet. It takes around five years and… — Prakah Iyer Copy Share Image
I don't mind singing, dancing, rolling down mountains, running around trees... though I'm really bad at it. However, I can't suddenly start… — Kunal Kapoor Copy Share Image
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as… — John Muir Copy Share Image
It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food,… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
I purely attribute my 'hamming it up' quality to growing up with three older brothers and just being like a tomboy my… — Eliza Dushku Copy Share Image
