Branches Quote by Cheryl Strayed

I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

— Natalie Dormer

Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you…

— William Shakespeare

I was a twig.

— Leighton Vander Esch

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than…

— Isaac Newton

I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger…

— Bhartrhari

“It was like a lucky pebble kept in my pocket that got so shined up from rubbing against the denim that no one could…

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

“Nature will be reported. All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

— Jane Hirshfield

“You fell out of a tree? What are you, an acorn?”

— Steven Levenson, Dear Evan Hansen

I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale footprint on…

— Audrey Niffenegger

I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.

— Brad Goreski

I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants…

— Gene Pitney