“Suddenly the sun rose – like a burst of hope. The dark autumn water mirrored the sky; it began to breathe and… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“I shouldn't have to do the foot-soldier work, Tahiri. Be my eyes and ears. I'd hate to have to use ch'hala trees.… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
“Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree.… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“Oh! What a miserable night I passed! The cold stars shone in mockery, and the bare trees waved their branches above me;… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
As the three of them walked home from the trees, nobody needed to say it, but Ama knew. They had questioned their… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“It is after days of Soaking in these downpours That the land can drink in The bounty, That the bejeweled trees can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An irrelevant and poignant sensation of pleasure rose in him, like a tree that grew up and flowered all in one moment… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, 'That is an oak tree', or 'that is a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“For this, let gardens grow, where beelines end, sighing in roses, saffron blooms, buddleia; where bees pray on their knees, sing, praise… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground -… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's either I have to be in the trees or in the ocean, otherwise I lose my mind. I have to get… — Greg Cipes Copy Share Image
“In my front yard, there are these two giant old trees, which help the porch vibe, obviously, with a forty-foot-tall canopy. It… — Chad Eastham Copy Share Image
I suppose that few people ever forget the first sight of a palm-tree of any species. I vividly remember seeing one for… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
“Each day the sun shone, the birds lingered, though the trees were turning, purely out of habit, and their rose and yellow… — Elizabeth Enright Copy Share Image
I was learning to use a chainsaw because I had to cut the trees for firewood and build a bridge on the… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
“At the head of the table, where the roots of the fallen tree create a high, twisted chair, is a man. His… — Zoraida Córdova Copy Share Image
“THEY shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“One tree isn’t more important than the entire forest, Joe. You taught me that. Remember? Political pruning. (Syd) Yeah, but every forest… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“In the wild a plant and its pests are continually coevolving, in a dance of resistance and conquest that can have no… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The forest is only waiting for their signal to start trembling, hissing, and roaring from its depths. An enormous, love-maddened, unlighted railway… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
Based on German prototypes, green walls and roofs are a natural idea in Singapore's tropical environment, where mosses, ferns, philodendrons, orchids and… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
“The desperate piercing scream of horror echoed far above the sharpened tops of the trees wrapped in thin obsidian-transparent mist, and I… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This is what I have heard at last the wind in December lashing the old trees with rain unseen rain racing along… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Where moments before the bright morning sun flickered through the branches of the huge oak trees surrounding the property, every-thing in a… — Joe DeRouen Copy Share Image
“... a human looks at a tree it translates the intricately complex mass of leaves and branches into this thing called ‘tree’.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“The man was staring directly at him now, a curious expression on his face, half smiling, half quizzical. Instantly Eager had a… — Helen Fox Copy Share Image
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image