“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
“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
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
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
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
There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
“ Excerpt from "The Trees in Winter" I’m old now and tired. Dried up and brittle. My hands are like clumsy crooked… — D.E. Sievers Copy Share Image
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will… — John Muir Copy Share Image
My background is in art. I was a painter and an occasional sculptor, and I really like materials - you know, stuff.… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from… — Jacky Ickx Copy Share Image
Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“To our indigenous ancestors, and to the many aboriginal peoples who still hold fast to their oral traditions, language is less a… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“The action of a thing is the same as the naming of it - is, in fact, the real name. The trees… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
“They'd entered a clearing. A wide, green meadow in the middle of the forest. The entire space was carpeted with bluebells. Thousands… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
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
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
“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
“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 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
