Trees Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

“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

“Horse-chestnut flowers bobbed like white wax candles above the deserted pavements. An oblique light struck into the street - so that its long and…

— M. John Harrison

“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

“What had to move - a leaf of the chestnut tree, for instance - moved.”

— Marcel Proust

“Chestnuts fall from the tree; symbol of masculinity and femininity - I scratched a purple pentagram in the tree.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“Fall seemed to last forever, the trees barren except for the few leaves still managing to hold on, poised in some terrible in-between.”

— Chelsea Sedoti

“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

“It seemed for a moment as if something was there, loitering between the knurled and towering cherry trees, a flash of a presence as…

— Hazel Butler

“Be like the tree that will never falter. Despite its fallen leaves, it withstands the chill of winter, yearning for the warm spring sunshine…

— Mouloud Benzadi

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

— Sōseki Natsume

“Under the spreading chestnut tree, I screwed you and you screwed me.”

— Joyce Haber

“They fluttered and rustled ceaselessly through the air from all the tree-tops and branches. A delicate silvery sound was falling constantly to earth. It…

— Felix Salten