Cutting Quote by Ann Patchett

“The light faded slowly, retreating through the trees. The thick mossy trunks grew dense with shadow, edges still rimmed with a fugitive light that…

— Diana Gabaldon

It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.

— Celia Thaxter

Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.

— John Burroughs

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead…

— Charles Dickens

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold,…

— Ernest Hemingway

The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the…

— Malcolm X

The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marveled, not for the first…

— Louise Penny

Ah, the pretty whisperers! It was very well When the leaves were thick and green, awhile ago-- Leaves are secret-keepers; but since the last…

— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

The leaves and the light are one.

— Albert Einstein

The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the…

— George MacDonald

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was…

— Edward Steichen

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

— Warren Buffett