Adam Quote by Andrew Greeley

Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if…

— John Lubbock

Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice, a silent…

— Mary Webb

“I have attended church-service in the garrisons, and tried hard...to join in the prayers...but never could raise within me the solemn feelings and true…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“Often I walked in the neighboring forest of fir and pine, whose beauties, wonderful winter solitudes, seemed to protect me from the onset of…

— Robert Walser

I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them…

— Silas House

In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the…

— William Kean Seymour

Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the…

— Neil Gaiman

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling…

— Muriel Barbery

“When I Am Among the Trees" When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks…

— Mary Oliver

In the country It seems as if every tree Said to me 'Holy! Holy!' Who can ever express The ecstasy of the woods! Almighty…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“If you know a lonely tree, go and visit it even if it takes miles to walk there! Because lonely tree is a great…

— Mehmet Murat ildan