Fire Quote by Charlotte Gray

The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the…

— Tryon Edwards

“Lo, and I have discovered how soft bloom turns to green fruit, which turns to sweet fruit. Lo, and I have discovered all winds…

— Mary Oliver

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The…

— William Carlos Williams

In an early spring, We see th'appearing buds, which to prove fruit, Hope gives not so much warrant, as despair, That frosts will bite…

— William Shakespeare

“The garden has wrapped itself in autumn haze. An unusual autumn, lacking that thrill of vegetal warmth when the sap is still alive and…

— Emil Dorian

Across the land a faint blue veil of mist Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober Till frost shall make them flame; silent…

— Siegfried Sassoon

Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of…

— Roger Swain

Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost;…

— John Burroughs

For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and wasted, upon…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for…

— Charles Dickens

“Trees endure the hot sun and rainstorms by sending their roots down deeper. The adversity they face is eventually the source of great stability.…

— John Bevere