Bad temper Quote by Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

— Paul Muldoon

“I am not a birch.”

— Sonny Hassell

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

— Berthold Auerbach

The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.

— Lisa Ann Sandell

“ Outside, a birch tree bends from the weight of the snow. it'll spring back up once the snow melts, back to its normal,…

— Carrie Jones

Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine…

— Charlotte Bronte

Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.

— George Herbert

It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards…

— Henry David Thoreau

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of…

— Arthur Symons

“An English wood is like a good many other things in life-- very promising at a distance, but a hollow mockery when you get…

— Gertrude Atherton

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

— Bruce Lee

Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their…

— Emily Carr