As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the…

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And…

— Richard Le Gallienne

Someone said, and rightfully, that "property is theft'." There's no way a man can stand and tell me that he owns an apple tree.…

— George Carlin

Cling, swing, Spring, sing, Swing up into the apple tree.

— T. S. Eliot

That tree is very old, but I never saw prettier blossoms on it than it now bears. That tree grows new wood each year.…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have…

— Diane Lane

Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat…

— Douglas Adams

This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I…

— Frederick Franck

I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous, but at…

— Jane Hirshfield

Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an…

— Werner Herzog

Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

— William Blake

She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an…

— David Wroblewski

Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.

— John Bunyan