Branches Quote by Czeslaw Milosz

Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.

— George Santayana

Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it…

— Mary Oliver

Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins.

— John Banville

Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?

— Pablo Neruda

And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots…

— Theodore Roethke

Before one goes through the gate one may not be aware there is a gate One may think there is a gate to go…

— R. D. Laing

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do…

— Anonymous

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

— Ezra Pound

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers…

— Charles Darwin

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

— John Muir

Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!

— Saadi

If you look close ... you can see that the wild critters have 'No Trespassing' signs tacked up on every pine tree.

— Marguerite Henry