Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to…

— T. Allen Lawson

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant…

— Benjamin Franklin

I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my grandchildren or…

— Robert Hass

Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as the oak…

— Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.

— Steven J Lawson

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

— Alan Watts

Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in…

— Alexander Pope

Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft…

— Owen Feltham

Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds.

— Rob Brezsny

Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,…

— Edmund Spenser

“The two giant oaks in the front yard looked like flustered ladies caught mid-curtsy, their starched green leaf-dresses swaying in the wind.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

And if we seem nutty to you and if we seem like an odd ball to you, just remember one thing. The mighty oak…

— Glenn Turner