Trees Quote by Frederic Manning

“I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“And for a time the tree stood blighted, trying to raise its stumted arms, a creature clubbed mute, only its sudden voicelessness making us…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“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

Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“A tree’s nature does not change because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“...when he walks, he sounds like a tree still full of dead leaves holding on.”

— Zachary Schomburg

“In the dark of the trees he could smell splintered wood and see white upturned faces like wide white dirty flowers.”

— Michael Shaara

“-the wind called a mordant note through the sickly trees while other less explicable sounds scraped up the beach-head toward him-waiting for the unknown…

— Nick Cutter

“A tree that falls makes a lot of noise. But a woodland that grows and spreads its roots, does it quietly.”

— Cristiane Serruya

“And the man then said Oh, please: Just let me know if you come upon bark textures that recall the erosion patterns of human…

— Evan Dara

“The stems of the tree trembled for long Before they gave up to the winds strong They would have continued to sing their song…

— Neelam Saxena Chandra

“Basked in the sun, listened to birds, licked off raindrops, and only in flight the leaf saw the tree and grasped what it had…

— Vera Pavlova