Trees Quote by Anthony Doerr

“Thinking about such things soothed the creature as it dug at the base of a tall oak tree, deep into the ground, covering itself…

— Joe DeRouen

“The trees' bony fingers make spell-casting gestures in the wind as they pass.”

— David Foster Wallace

“I daydreamed a lot about the sycamore tree, too, which at first I thought was because I was feeling melancholy. But then I remembered…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

“Various large trees— willowy peppers and especially the pines—seem to be reaching down to hold your hand.”

— Tom Hillman

To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

— Ruskin Bond

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching…

— Edna Ferber

It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and…

— Khalil Gibran

“Any hawk looking down on the orchard's cloistered square, hoping for the titbit of a beetle or a mouse, would see a patterned canopy…

— Jim Crace

“Despite the heavy, motionless silence of the hawthorns, these gusts of fragrance came to me like the murmuring of an intense vitality, with which…

— Marcel Proust

“Some of the trees hung their branches down almost as far as the surface, as if they were trying to stroke it with long…

— Sophie Cleverly

“The wood was silent, still and secret in the evening drizzle of rain, full of the mystery of eggs and half-open buds, half unsheathed…

— D.H. Lawrence

“My balls dangle so low that I need a rake to scratch them. It also comes in handy when raking up all the leaves…

— Jarod Kintz