A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I could lecture on dry oak leaves; I could, but who would hear me? If I were to try it on any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When the Lord starts out to make an oak tree, he takes a hundred years to do it in, but he can… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree?… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion.… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when… — John Muir Copy Share Image
High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and… — George Will Copy Share Image
It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The oak has not the efficacy of the fir, nor the cypress that of the elm. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Some people when I speak of awareness of the "inner body" call it a technique. I would not call it a technique… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The winter oak... is very useful in buildings but when in a moist place it takes in water to its centre... and… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
