Life Quote by Jimmy Santiago Baca

“Let us cross over the river, and rest in the shade of the trees.”

— Thomas Jackson

“I don't want to be the river anymore. I want to be the earth that the tree roots in. And I believe that I…

— Sabrina Jeffries

“The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher, The privileged, the homeless, the Teacher. They all hear The speaking of the Tree. They hear the first…

— Maya Angelou

“There is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

“I feel like a tree exposed to the elements, my roots clinging to the soil, my branches flirting with heaven.”

— Leylah Attar

“Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big…

— Joseph Conrad

“The tree of which we are branches on, makes choices yesterday, by the choices we make today.”

— Matthew Edward Hall

“The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.”

— Ishmael Beah

“In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.”

— Alice Walker

“I think again about the Tree of Life. A wonderful notion that we as people are all stemmed and thrive from a tree springing…

— Nicholas A. McGirr

“We all have a tree inside us. Finding it is just a matter of time.”

— Sahar Delijani

“Make it bend — trees are flexible, so they don’t snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch — perfect trees don’t exist. Nothing…

— Laurie Halse Anderson