Alma mater Quote by Bruce A. Sarte

“An university is judged by the beauty of its tree lines.”

— Amit Ray

“Now here I am, living in the land of tall pine trees and red dirt hills”

— Nancy B. Brewer

“The river loved to tell everybody (everybody being the sky, the wind, the few trees that grew around there, birds, deer and even the…

— Richard Brautigan

“We live in the fairy forest of huge trees which is on the other side of the lake, said Farina.”

— Magda M. Olchawska

“There is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

“My woods...the young fir balsams like a place Where houses all are churches and have spires.”

— Robert Frost

“The autumn leaves, arranged in two or three scarlet terraces among the pine-trees, have fallen like ancient dreams.”

— Sōseki Natsume

“I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study poetry. I…

— Francesca Lia Block

“make this day a tree leaning over the river eternity and fuss about in its branches.”

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

“The river was glossy, narrow, and quick, a beautiful green color, with the white and maroon striped college punts strung along the near bank.…

— Charles Finch

“LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.”

— A.E. Housman

“Sometimes I dream the tree, and the tree is my life. One branch is the man I shall marry, and the leaves my children.…

— John Brownlow