“In the far corner of the yard, two squirrels raced up a tree trunk, their little feet scrabbling frantically on the bark.… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
When we distributed the paper and crayons, they were fighting over the blue crayon. Everyone wanted to start with the blue, and… — Connie Sellecca Copy Share Image
“Parents who experience pause from “the unnecessary beauty of an ice storm coating trees,” while their kids—who “bewilder well,” she writes—are simply… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
“The wood was silent, still and secret in the evening drizzle of rain, full of the mystery of eggs and half-open buds,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Twenty feet above was Fort Scout, set in a tangle of tree limbs. It was the most elaborate tree fort he had… — Bryan Chick Copy Share Image
The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
Woods are not like other spaces. To begin with, they are cubic. Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“It's like this, Bunny Boy, if you walk up to an oak tree or a bloody elm or something - you know,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“In my old age, I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children,… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
“Mother took the big saw from me and walked over to the orange tree which stood at one end of the totally… — Christina Crawford Copy Share Image
Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon;… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“We are the Roots of the tree on which you flourish. Go on rejoicing in your beauty! But remember there is this… — Ivan Krylov Copy Share Image
“Woods were ringed with a colour so soft, so subtle that it could scarcely be said to be a colour at all.… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees.… — Kim Novak Copy Share Image
I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you may think you have fallen into an abyss. When in fact, you have just descended to the roots of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut,… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
“I am homesick for the forest—not for the birds and the trees alone, but for the way I could dissolve into their… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“It was almost twilight, long shadows of oaks and chestnuts crossing the unpaved road leading away from the village. This part of… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
When 'Tree of Life' went to Cannes, all the interviewers were asking me about my favorite actors and actresses because I was… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
“Oh oak tree, how they have pruned you. Now you stand odd and strangely shaped! You were hacked a hundred times until… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I always thought I'd want to look out on the sea but we rented a place in Cornwall with panoramic views of… — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
“The land afterward was cleared by oxen, the fallen trees stripped of their bark and cut for lumber that would be used… — David Grand Copy Share Image
“All of them were shriveled, desiccated, bone-thin and skeletal, every jaw cruelly broken, opening and closing in mute entreaty, the teeth clacking… — Edward M. Erdelac Copy Share Image
“Drool has sprouted an erection. Let’s ask him what he’s thinking about. Had his way with a knotted oak on the way… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“It is rather a strange and sad story,’ he went on after a pause. ‘When the world was young, and the woods… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“That's tree persons in the room now and two of us, that equals five, it's nearly full of arms and legs and… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Five girls sat beside, and upon the branches of, the oldest apple tree in the orchard, its huge trunk making a fine… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
