A cross is a poor shade tree in earthquake weather.

“Throughout eternity our poor ghosts are exposed to nameless vicissitudes. There is no appeal, no advice, no support, no protection, nothing. Poor Kinbote's ghost,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

— Karl Kraus

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

— James Russell Lowell

I liked climbing trees and could often be found up one reading a book. I played games with Dad and drew maps for him…

— Rhianna Pratchett

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

The problem with drinking and driving is that trees defend themselves very well.

— Anonymous

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

“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their quest for…

— Ramon Ravenswood

“Nevermore Tree was gargantuan, a word which here means 'having attained an inordinate amount of botanical volume.”

— Lemony Snicket

“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,”

— Hugh Howey

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

“Sitting at the old patio table she’d cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs of the…

— Sarah Addison Allen

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

I loved the game so much that even though our playing field was muddy and we had many trees on it, I used to…

— Roberto Clemente