Branches Quote by Jacquetta Hawkes

“How calmly does the orange branch Observe the sky begin to blanch Without a cry, without a prayer, With no betrayal of despair. Sometime…

— Tennessee Williams

“The wind fights in the treetops; the leaves move in a hundred dialects of green...”

— Fredrik Backman

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief.…

— Philip Larkin

“Like leaves on a tree we must wither away but we take comfort in the green ones which comes today.”

— Shemar Stephens

Across the land a faint blue veil of mist Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober Till frost shall make them flame; silent…

— Siegfried Sassoon

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

— Norman Douglas

“Trees allow their old leaves to fall so they can then blossom.”

— Renee Rentmeester

Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will…

— Mark Nepo

How innocent were these Trees, that in Mist-green May, blown by a prospering breeze, Stood garlanded and gay; Who now in sundown glow Of…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“The garden has wrapped itself in autumn haze. An unusual autumn, lacking that thrill of vegetal warmth when the sap is still alive and…

— Emil Dorian

The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we…

— Robert Graves

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said;

— Philip Larkin