When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What does a river know about this and what does a tree know? And I, who am no more than those, what… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The vineyard country, russet, reddish, carmine-brown in this season. A blue outline of hills above a fertile valley. It's warm as long… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“A fresh lightning tree sprouted in the distance as Mother Nature painted the sky in rapid strokes, strobed the results, and then… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
“October made the leaves on Main Street fit for a crown. They dripped from the trees in jewel-toned shades: yellow and orange… — Natalie Lloyd Copy Share Image
“When she had arranged her household affairs, she came to the library and bade me follow her. Then, with the mirror still… — R. Murray Gilchrist Copy Share Image
A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting… — Charles Eley Copy Share Image
Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Entering the rain forest was like passing through a green curtain into a massive haunted room. It was as claustrophobic as I… — James Morris Copy Share Image
You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There are all different kinds of trees, some closer and some farther away, each one standing in its own patch of ground… — Margaret Wrinkle Copy Share Image
“Who built this tree of universe that has not stopped changing from the very minute (atomic) times undergoing many beautiful and wonderful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“No oak trees without acorns' may be a formally true proposition, but that this acorn did in fact produce this oak tree,… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
When I was scouting 'Night Moves,' the guy showing me around happened to have nine fingers. It turned out that he blows… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep," Jess intoned as they took the path down from the parking lot. She had imagined… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
During the mid-1990s, I collected thousands of hackberry fruits from trees all across the Midwest. I chemically analyzed each seed in order… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a… — R.D. Blackmore Copy Share Image
“Through rational thought I can recognize that a man is a living being just like me, but for my true, involuntary self… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice, While the slant sun of February pours Into… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“Year by year I see trees disappearing. It's no good people saying they replant: you never find the same number. Each time… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
“The trees had long since dropped their colorful matntles of leaves. The grass had gone dormant and lay dry and beaten down,… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can see from the experience of Odin that the image of the tree was the template within which all of the… — Brian Bates Copy Share Image
The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The end of the story is of your making, nobody else's. You can do with it as you choose. There are as… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“When fruits fall from a tree, they immediately begin to degrade. Nature intended for this to happen so that the fruits’ nutrients… — David B. Agus Copy Share Image
In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“In New York, when a tree dies, nobody mourns that it was cut down in its prime. Nobody counts the rings, notifies… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“A farmer’s crops weren’t doing well. He had tried everything he could with the land and soil he had, but no matter… — Eula McGrevey Copy Share Image
A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
“The spruce and cedar on its shores, hung with gray lichens, looked at a distance like the ghosts of trees. Ducks were… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There were no ferns or shocks of crabgrass or other signs of plant life—only the presence of ancient, hulking trees. The woods… — Jeff Wheeler 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
