How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
“In the hills giant oaks Fall upon their knees You can touch parts You have no right to” — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
George Foreman can knock down an oak tree ... but oak trees don't move. — Angelo Dundee Copy Share Image
The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me. — Mary Carolyn Davies Copy Share Image
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned? — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean. — Horace Copy Share Image
Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass… — Edgar Fawcett Copy Share Image
Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment,… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things;… — Igor Levit Copy Share Image
Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
“Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
