Birch trees Quote by E. Nesbit

“The way downhill, into the bottomless incredulity which is despair, was incandescent with flowering chestnut trees.”

— Elizabeth Bowen

When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I…

— Anais Nin

“Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue of the sky, full of stars, all…

— Hermann Hesse

Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the antlers of…

— Helen Keller

“Weave for the mighty chestnut A tributary crown Of autumn leaves, the brightest then When autumn leaves are brown Hang up his bridle on…

— Charles Hatton Secretariat

“Sweet Sunday afternoons, beneath the chestnut-tree in our Combray garden, from which I was careful to eliminate every commonplace incident of my actual life,…

— Marcel Proust

My whole life I've loved trees!

— Chris Redd

And the boy loved the tree…very much. And the tree was happy.

— Shel Silverstein

Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle…

— Walt Whitman

“A tree is a fantastic example of beauty, but who has time to look at a tree?”

— Janwillem van de Wetering

“ Loveliest of Trees Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing…

— Anonymous

His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours!

— Samuel Gilman