Acorns Quote by Erin Hunter

You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid!…

— Terry Pratchett

Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in…

— Alexander Pope

“Once upon a time, in a not-so-far-away land, there was a kingdom of acorns, nestled at the foot of a grand old oak tree.…

— Beatrice Chestnut

Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For…

— Shirley Ann Grau

“fully Westernized acorns, they went about their business with purposeful energy; and since they were midlife, baby-boomer acorns, they engaged in a lot of…

— Beatrice Chestnut

Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

— Hannah Whitall Smith

There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the…

— Oprah Winfrey

“They drank from a spring which filled an ancient stone trough behind the ruin. Beyond it lay overgrown beds and plants John had never…

— Lawrence Norfolk

Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.

— Jerry Coleman

“They are beautiful, heart-rendingly beautiful, those wilds, with a quality of wide-eyed, unsung, innocent surrender that my lacquered, toy-bright Swiss villages and exhaustively lauded…

— Vladimir Nabokov

For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old…

— Herman Melville

“There was certainly plenty to watch and listen to. The tree which Digory had noticed was now a full-grown beech whose branches swayed gently…

— C.S. Lewis