Compared Quote by Jane Austen

“We were men once, though we've become trees”

— Dante Alighieri

“The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the face of a man.”

— Daniel J. Rice

“All men are not like trees. For some it is best to be moving where the spirit leads, like our cousin the wind.”

— Idwal Jones

“The trees had protected it from time and weather, and from men who have less pity than time and weather.”

— Ayn Rand

“There's a special kind of man who plants a tree when he knows he'll move on before it's big enough for him to sit…

— Sandra Dallas

“Although men were strong like rocks, any stone could crack. Women were more like water. They nurtured life and could shape the hardest granite…

— Michael J. Sullivan

Man is nature as much as the trees.

— Dan Kiley

“Men could be as big as a house and made of granite, but they all had balls in the same place.”

— Stieg Larsson

“society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never see’.”

— James Kerr

“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?”

— Jane Austen

“The trees are a thousand times taller than me, and hundreds of years older, and the rocks and leaves and plants and animals never…

— Ben Stephenson

“Nature might stand up      And say to all the world, ‘This was a man!”

— William Shakespeare