Trees Quote by Anne Sexton

“The bats inebriate the sky . . .”

— A. E. Stallings

“For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them and all three turned…

— Natalie Babbitt

“Midnight glided across the landscape like a velvet bat.”

— Terry Pratchett

“We roamed between the angels and the eagles. Bats flickered against the starry sky. Moonlight poured down”

— David Almond

“Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed…

— Ian Fleming

The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings,…

— John Gay

“It is getting dark. In the low mists over the hills, an orange glow broods, as if the trees are on fire. Bats are…

— Tan Twan Eng

“That night for the first time in my life I realized that it is the physical presence of people and their spirits that gives…

— Ishmael Beah

“By the time I arrive at evening, / they have just settled down to rest; / already invisible, they are turning / into the…

— Lisel Mueller

“He closed his eyes, and in moments sleep overtook him, the night pulsing out darkness on the legs of summer crickets.”

— C.M. Turner

“-Bumblebee bat, how do you see at night? -I make a squeaky sound that bounces back from whatever it hits. I see by hearing.”

— Darrin Lunde

“he begins to notice that he has been turned out of the silent company of the trees, the animals, the stars, and the unconscious…

— Erich Maria Remarque