Fire Quote by Anthony Marra

“The trees on either side were very tall and thin, like long, skeletal fingers reaching to the sky. The few remaining leaves were still…

— S.J. Bolton

“He sat on the logs, smoking, drying in the sun, the sun warm on his back the river shallow ahead entering the woods, curving…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while hiding him.…

— J.D. Stroube

“He liked the grand size of things in the woods, the feeling of being lost and far away, and the sense he had that…

— Denis Johnson

“The trees were like black skeletons reaching to the sky, pleading with their bony arms for the sun to get stronger.”

— J.R. Ward

“And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.”

— The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“An ending and a beginning now knotted up forever. He expected the hues of the world to change to reflect that, but the earth…

— Sarah Pinborough

“After weeks in the forest, the woods embrace us as their own, and the wilderness hums softly, attuned to our souls.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Towering pines and hemlocks, was it? I thought, clambering over the burled knots of a fallen tree. The monstrous trunks rose so high that…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Leaf, branch, vine, bramble. The rush of air in my ears. The rapid-fire scuffscuffscuff of my shoes on the trail. Shards of blue sky…

— RIch Yancy

“The walnut tree told me when Emeline Margulies turned eighteen. Law-wise in Pennsylvania, a girl burns her ships at eighteen. Her daddy was dead…

— Clayton Lindemuth

“And my father went back into the forest and chopped down a tree. The sound of the trunk fracturing and splintering and falling to…

— Sarah Winman