Appearance Quote by Isaac Asimov

“A rigid old tree like me--it snaps in a raging storm. The pliant tree bends in the rain and survives.”

— Emery Lord

“The tree had been dead a long time, but it seemed to live again in the fire”

— George R.R. Martin

“They found a thick tree that had fallen, the tangled roots exposed. They saw the drenched ground that had given way. The tree seemed…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“A tree with strong roots laughs at storms.”

— Nnedi Okorafor

“The tree of life is already doomed from the moment it is planted.”

— Tan Twan Eng

“It is only during a storm that a tree knows how strong it is.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“It's like this enormous tree had just crashed through the house and I was picking up the leaves so no one would notice what…

— Ann Patchett

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary with age, enfeebled, dry. So more the things remain the same,…

— John Knowles

“Out of the window , I could see a tree in the distance -little more than a sapling, really, stunted and fragile, it's slender,…

— Gary William Murning

“It was very sad under the trees. Although spring was well advanced, in the deep shade there was nothing but death-rotten leaves, gray and…

— Nathanael West

“A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo