“In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. There the wild animals… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
“I think people who don't know the woods very well sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated mass of greenery, an… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Tis rushing now adown the spout, And gushing out below, Half frantic in its joyousness, And wild in eager flow. The earth… — Elizabeth Oakes Smith Copy Share Image
“the distant whisper of the creek as it runs between the roots of trees so much older than I am that they… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
The year is ended, and it only adds to my age; Spring has come, but I must take leave of my home.… — Su Ting Copy Share Image
It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part,… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“A wave of Time hangs motionless on this particular shore. I notice a tree, arsenical grey in the light, or the slow… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Got up this morning looked out the window saw the trees dancing that makes me smile... cause you always said the trees… — Adneva Copy Share Image
"We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Let us note that the tree in itself was a good thing, for all that God had made was good (see Gn… — Brian Kennelly Copy Share Image
It seems that every life form on this planet strives toward its maximum potential... except human beings. A tree does not grow… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
“The undulating terrain was cloaked in lush abundance, the vineyards like garlands of deep green and yellow, orchards and farms sprouting here… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“In one picture, the pool was half hidden by a fringe of mace- weeds, and the dead willow was leaning across it… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“...many neat holes dug in the dawn hours, seeds dropped in, and water brought…And, the thing that he wanted was Mars grown… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Machines and relatives get most of the yelling. But never trees. As for people, well, the Solomon islanders may have a point.… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Like a tree accepts all seasons, accept your suffering with grace. Good days, like sunshine, will help you bloom and prosper. Hard… — M O'zee Copy Share Image
“Ah, you may sit under them, yes. They cast a good shadow, cold as well-water; but that's the trouble, they tempt you… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“Some stories last many centuries, others only a moment. All alter over that lifetime like beach-glass, grow distant and more beautiful with… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Can a person who has been brought up in the heart of a thick dark forest, where one has to beat a… — Audur Ava Olafsdottir Copy Share Image
“The Fall, a time when the illusion of the Maya fades away, a freedom from the identification with the illusory persona. For… — Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache Copy Share Image
The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret… — Hélder Câmara Copy Share Image
Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“I have seen trees that survive fire. Their bark is burned and their limbs are dead branches. But hidden under that skeleton… — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
“country road on the day they first viewed the property. She had taken one look at it as they drove into the… — Michael Bunker Copy Share Image
I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“It was still very wet under the trees. A careless tug at a branch might flip cold rainbow-edged drops down your back.… — Jean Thompson Copy Share Image
“I glanced at the contents of what I was photocopying. They were the rules of the golf club of which Mister Saito… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“But here a pure change happens. On this tree Loss becomes gain, death opens into birth. Here wounding heals and fastening makes… — Malcolm Guite Copy Share Image
“Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Tree Association, told how Rogers gave him advice in handling an educational campaign in tree… — P.J. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“It had been a windy night, that night where his life had taken its turning. The atmosphere, in flood, was trying to… — Michael Shea Copy Share Image
There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In all these sights I achieve solace only in bringing forth trees, picturing them blooming like smoke from the roofs of gutted… — Tod Wodicka Copy Share Image
