You've to close down your umbrella when you are under a…

The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort at a…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The canopy of trees overhead is so thick that only bits and pieces of blue sky can be seen overhead. Narrow rays of sunshine…

— Vanessa G. Foster

The greatest benefit derived from the study of science is that it lifts you out of and above the littleness of daily trials. We…

— Maria Mitchell

Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep…

— William Shakespeare

The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long…

— Rick Yancey

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen,…

— Melina Marchetta

Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of…

— Maya Angelou

Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few…

— E. O. Wilson

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

— William C. Bryant

Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working environment, although the view…

— Anonymous

I don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash,…

— Brandon Sanderson

There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the…

— Oprah Winfrey

A heart's a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy's…

— Shannon Hale

Green, the color of growth, or surgent life, enwraps the land. New green, still as individual as the plants themselves. Cool green, which will…

— Hal Borland