“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
“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
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
“There are gigantic trees that have grown tall into the winds and the clouds over the thousands of years of their lives,… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Why roots were rated so highly compared with branches or leaves, Peri had never understood. Trees had multiple shoots and filaments extending… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I found a treehouse. I found this weird tree, out in a field, and someone had put a piece of a fence,… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
“The sky is stained pink and purple, and the shadows are thick, stark brush strokes on the ground. But the air is… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Above me, wind does its best to blow leaves off the aspen tree a month too soon. No use wind. All you… — Bill Holm Copy Share Image
Before my mother was a King, she climbed trees and wrestled with boys. And won. Even as a child, Coretta Scott demonstrated… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Passing that fiery tree-if only she could; Be making love, Be making poetry, Be exploding, be speeding through the universe; Like a… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
“... One that would have the fruit must climb the tree... Great hopes make great men... Tis skill, not strength, that governs… — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
It is only by spring that the death of the autumns returns. What about winter, which is death? When the pure snow… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“It had turned out that climbing a tree was more difficult than it looked. It was harder than warrior pose in yoga,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Jerry walked up to a tall tree, an oak I think. It must have been ten or fifteen blocks high. Jerry started… — Mark Mulle Copy Share Image
In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut,… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
My mother was born in June and later, feeling a vacancy, chose her birth month for her middle name. Marry to marry,… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living… — Dylan Lauren Copy Share Image
“I skip down the driveway, hurry up the road, linger on the bridge for a moment, looking down at the reflection of… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“trees [-] Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a ‘person-of-the-arts,’ limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind’s… — A. A. Attanasio Copy Share Image
Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Yet for the first time in three days, I want something. I want the forest lord to turn me into a cedar.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Then God said, ‘I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, on days when the weather was beyond redemption, mere residence in the house, situated in the midst of a steady and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Arboreal, a fine word. Our arboreal ancestors, Crake used to say. Used to shit on their enemies from above while perched in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a person might point to the roots and say that it is just here that we can find the real Dharma,… — Sadhak Anshit Copy Share Image
For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as our forefathers saved and invested to build what we, the current generation, are enjoying today, so, too, we must plant… — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily… — Anonymous 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 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
“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
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