Admiration Quote by Gene Wolfe

“We were in the autumnlands. Dim as it was, the forest glowed. The golden leaves flashing by blazed like sparks caught in the updraft…

— Margaret Rogerson

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling…

— Muriel Barbery

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

“More surprising, perhaps, was that I began to understand something important about humans and trees at that moment. I began to understand our shared…

— M.O. Walsh

The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

— Jane Hirshfield

“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

I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed…

— Aimee Friedman

When I stepped away from the white pine, I had the definite feeling that we had exchanged some form of life energy. ... Clearly…

— Anne LaBastille

I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and…

— John Muir

Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love…

— Mark Strand

“Can you say those words and not like it? Don't it bring to you a magnificent picture of the pristine world, - great seas…

— Harriet Prescott Spofford