August Quote by Hamlin Garland

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing…

— Kathleen Raine

“The first light on the roof outside; very early morning. The leaves on all the trees tremble with a soft awakening to any breeze…

— Ray Bradbury

“Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees”

— Benny Bellamacina

“When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after…

— Maya Angelou

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

— George Herbert

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

— Bob Dylan

“Cicadas,” Craw said. “Also known as locusts. Or, as John the Baptist would say, lunch.” I”

— Sam Torode

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

— Robert Lowell

The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows…

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

“out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They were told…

— Joseph M. Chiron

“Without the world noticing, the locusts of common, criminal violence are right now ravaging the lives and dreams of billions of our poorest neighbors.”

— Gary A. Haugen

“Revelation, Charlie explained, predicted that locusts would come, and locusts were, of course, beetles—the Beatles. John said that the locusts would have “scales like…

— Jeff Guinn

“the thick stream of air hauled toward the summits first the great horses of noise reared against the sky then sluggishly the great limp…

— Aimé Césaire

“however, while the gnats were swarming like locusts”

— M.F. Lorson

“All that was ordered and stable is shaken. The Æon of Wonders is come. Like locusts shall they gather themselves together, the servants of…

— Aleister Crowley