Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
I love driving around Hancock Park. I think it was designed in the 1920s, and it still has that feel. The streetlamps… — Kendrick Sampson Copy Share Image
“A street turned off at right angles, descending, and became a dirt road. On either hand the land dropped more sharply; a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I undressed to climb a tree; my naked thighs embraced the smooth and humid bark; my sandals climbed upon the branches. High… — Pierre Louÿs Copy Share Image
“Trees endure the hot sun and rainstorms by sending their roots down deeper. The adversity they face is eventually the source of… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Love for trees pours out of her—the grace of them, their supple experimentation, the constant variety and surprise. These slow, deliberate creatures… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
“As soon as he had disappeared Deborah made for the trees fringing the lawn, and once in the shrouded wood felt herself… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
My instincts led me to meditate in the woods when I was a kid. I would emerge at sunset and announce to… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
“The dark and the snow are too thick for him to see beyond the first trees. He’s been in there before at… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have had the most wonderful childhood, and I was raised in a very loving family. And it was nothing short of… — Rose Leslie Copy Share Image
Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and… — Steven Clark Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Freedom of life does not mean disorder of life, does not mean chaos, and just everyone doing anything he wants. That is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Yesterday I noticed a scent of bark outside that I had not smelled in years. While the bark lingered in my nose,… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
“Pandas and rain forests are never mentioned when it comes to the millions of people taking joyrides in their Range Rovers. Rather,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“The nitrogen cycle is a kind of miracle. The nitrogen cycle requires bears. Brown bears catch salmon in streams and rivers. Then… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
“Dortchen ducked through a gap in the trees, following a winding path to a small grove of old linden trees, their branches… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Everything is strange. Things are huge and very small. The stalks of flowers are thick as oak trees. Leaves are high as… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“Lucy's eyes began to grow accustomed to the light, and she saw the trees that were nearest her more distinctly. A great… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To start with, there's the alien accent. "Tree" is the number between two and four. "Jeintz" is the name of the New… — Fletcher Knebel Copy Share Image
“Before us, over the tree tops, we beheld a great field of open sea to the East. Sheer above us rose single… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an… — Leo Lionni Copy Share Image
“The nation’s forests were being cut faster than they could grow back. In the 1890s, while Aldo was growing up, the United… — Marybeth Lorbiecki Copy Share Image
“The greenhouse was made entirely of glass. Its ceiling reached five stories high, tall enough to fit a variety of fruit-bearing trees… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“And though he liked drawing trees he liked most of all to be with trees. He would climb them, lean against them,… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
“And how she smiled and how she laughed, the maiden of the tree. She spun away and said to him, no featherbed… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Ree followed a path made by prey uphill through scrub, across a bald knob and downhill into a section of pine trees… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
Some persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
