Acorns Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a…

— Henry David Thoreau

“When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.”

— Thomas Carlyle

The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.

— Mary Carolyn Davies

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

— John Keats

All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

— Anonymous

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting…

— Herman Melville

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“A farmer’s crops weren’t doing well. He had tried everything he could with the land and soil he had, but no matter what he…

— Eula McGrevey

“The giant oak tree of a story, started with a small acorn of a thought. -T.A. Cline”

— T.A. Cline

“Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to…

— Anonymous