In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell; Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour, But… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence. — Jocelyn Murray Copy Share Image
Oh that it were with me As with the flower; Blooming on its own tree For butterfly and bee Its summer morns:… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ.… — Elizabeth A. Johnson Copy Share Image
The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like… — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Playfulness. We've baked Mallomars and Rice Krispies treats, made milkshakes, and even built a macaron cake in the shape of a Christmas… — David Castle Copy Share Image
. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight. — Leonard Lauder Copy Share Image
I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree. — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Like a tree losing its leaves. I forget even the thing I was thinking. — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
As the woodpecker taps in a spiral quest From the root to the top of the tree, Then flies to another tree,… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
The Christmas spirit that goes out with the dried-up Christmas tree is just as worthless. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
. . . . spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it… — Tom Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Association is the delight of the heart, not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds,… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha,… — Ron Shelton Copy Share Image
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
