Trees in winter lose their leaves. Some trees may even…

“Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.”

— Ashly Lorenzana

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

— Robert Bly

As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.

— Homer

“The air had a cool crispness to it and the leaves on the trees had begun turning yellow and red.”

— Carla Reighard

People get stronger by every winter, trees go thru winter and take lots of damage but in the end they just grew stronger, like…

— CJ

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

— Jeffrey McDaniel

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

“When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after…

— Maya Angelou

Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.

— Adelaide Crapsey

“When trees fall on trees, the topmost tree must first be removed before others. Don't be too concerned about the problems of the past.…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“In a garden, things grow . . . but first, they must wither; trees have to lose their leaves in order to put forth…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again, Drawing up from the…

— Robert Bly

“It is not our job to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves Like the trees, and be born again, Drawing up from…

— Robert Bly

“Animals had returned to what was left of the forest...clusters of orange butterflies exploded off the blackish purple piles of bear sign and winked…

— Denis Johnson

“The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.”

— Buchi Emecheta