Branches Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may…

— Anton Chekhov

Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days.

— Philip Whalen

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

— Norman Douglas

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if…

— Andre Gide

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

— Walter Scott

For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and wasted, upon…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

“Some single trees, wholly bright scarlet, seen against others of their kind still freshly green, or against evergreens, are more memorable than whole groves…

— Henry David Thoreau

I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to…

— Graeme Murphy

And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots…

— Theodore Roethke

Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn…

— Khalil Gibran

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

— Cullen Hightower