I have seen trees that survive fire. Their bark is burned…

“of Bloemendaal was said to be one of the most beautiful in Holland. I had never seen it, only the trees at”

— Corrie ten Boom

Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough.

— Gary Snyder

“We become like dead branches and last year's leaves and what the hell good are we for ourselves and the world in a mental…

— Chaim Potok

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

— Italo Calvino

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

— Alma Gluck

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty…

— Matthew Fox

Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive.…

— Nicole Williams

“leaves were like lace, criss-crossing blackly over tangles of dead branches. I”

— Kiran Millwood Hargrave

“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