Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

Listen to the tree; it tells you where it wants to go!

— John Naka

“Once he raised his arm to show his friends the back of his hand, where the veins were laid out in the shape of…

— Yuri Olesha

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

— Erik Larson

“My intellect tells me "read between the lines.. No need to humor something that is what it is and is not what it was.”

— Phil Thersby

'Botanicula' tells the story of a group of twigs, nuts, and leaves trying to escape with the life essence of a tree in tow…

— Rob Manuel

The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as…

— Patience Strong

Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by…

— Hermann Hesse

He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

You never quite know what you do in life that leaves a seed behind that grows into an oak tree.

— Michael Portillo

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be…

— David Levithan

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

— Dorothy Richardson

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this…

— Brian Swimme

Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started…

— Fred Durst