August Quote by Hamlin Garland

“When I Am Among the Trees" When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks…

— Mary Oliver

the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath

— Robert Lowell

“Trees scream and drop bright leaves”

— Allen Ginsberg

“The moon rises. The red cubs rolling In the ferns by the rotten oak Stare over a marsh and a meadow To the farm's…

— Randall Jarrell

“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

The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours…

— Thomas Starr King

“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

“The weather is quite delicious. Yesterday, after writing to you, I strolled a little beyond the glade for an hour and a half and…

— Charles Darwin

We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall, The elm…

— May Sarton

“There must be transients in the bird world too, rumple-feathered outcasts that naturally seek out each other’s company in inferior and dying trees.”

— Barbara Kingsolver