Braided Quote by Elora Bishop

“Unable to sleep, or pray, I stand by the window looking out at moonstruck trees a December storm has bowed with ice. Maple and…

— Robert Hayden

“We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree—deeply rooted to withstand all…

— Dodinsky

“Even as the roots, shut in the darksome earth, Share in the tree top's joyance, and conceive Of sunshine and wide air and winged…

— James Russell Lowell

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.…

— Herman Hesse

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.…

— Hermann Hesse

“And it came to me that these trees had been hardly smaller when I was yet unborn, and had stood as they stood now…

— Gene Wolfe

“How calmly does the orange branch Observe the sky begin to blanch Without a cry, without a prayer, With no betrayal of despair. Sometime…

— Tennessee Williams

“But now that I can see it all as from a lonely hilltop, I know it was the story of a mighty vision given…

— Black Elk

“A smaller number of people whispered that the Tree was a gift from a merciful god, its roots lapping up the blood to hold…

— Pete Aldin

“Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief.”

— Arundhati Roy

“Never did a tree fall That did I not feel a pang For rightly said when they are non man will be gone.. For…

— Louis L'Amour

“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