Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The fir tree had grown a punk haircut, as it did every summer.”

— Nancy Adams

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I…

— William Blake

He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where…

— Charles Dickens

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as…

— Patience Strong

Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by…

— Hermann Hesse

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

You never quite know what you do in life that leaves a seed behind that grows into an oak tree.

— Michael Portillo

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

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

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

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