And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer,… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish… — Julius Sterling Morton Copy Share Image
For a tree, to endure four months of daylight is like you or I going without sleep for four months. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“it's hard to avoid the suspicion that in seeing all the trees I missed the wood” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“As I sit, my back leaning against a damp, moss-covered tree trunk, my eyes sweeping the canopy above, my ears straining to… — Birute M.F. Galdikas Copy Share Image
Two mentally disturbed men decided they must go to school. They collected old books and went to sit under the tree pretending… — Newlove 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
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
When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“There's a realm above the trees Where the lost are finally found Touch your feathers to the breeze And leave the ground.” — Owl City Copy Share Image
Bubbly roles and running around trees don't satiate an actor's quest for the best. — Meghana Raj 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
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“The trees breathe all the time and no one really notices. They take in the air we choke on. They live and… — Evan Roskos Copy Share Image
A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
