Alas Quote by John Donne

Compared with me, a tree is immortal.

— Sylvia Plath

“the trees would die before the poison was out of the soil.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may…

— Alice Hoffman

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

— Karen Joy Fowler

Whosoever plants a tree / Winks at immortality,

— Felix Dennis

As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore.

— Christina Rossetti

“God made a garden for man and woman and he told them 'Do not eat the fruit from that tree.' A serpent visited the…

— Mickey Hustle

“For every field planted and grown, for every tree rekindled from their rotting root beds, comes that ancient instinct, that hunger for acceptance, for…

— T.S. Tate

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe.

— John Milton

“I died as mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was human,…

— Rumi

Life is like a flower. Though it's beautiful, it could hurt us by its thorn. Though it's sweet, it could harm us by its…

— Daniya

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and…

— Rumi