Bench Quote by Joyce Rachelle

“To me, a forest is just a bunch of trees, but lakes and rivers are alive. Water is to the land what blood is…

— Sam Torode

“There’s always books. And the wind through trees.”

— Anna Jae

“make this day a tree leaning over the river eternity and fuss about in its branches.”

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

“I don't get it. It's a bunch of trees with leaves.”

— Cindy Woodsmall

“But it's the eyes that hold me captive, empty of concentric creek ripples and breezy tree branches playing the sky like my bow plays…

— Emily Murdoch

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

— Alice Walker

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

— Thomas Jackson

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how…

— Octavia E. Butler

“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

“I told the tree it was going nowhere in life. It was hurtful, but true. Now, maybe in death it will go somewhere, as…

— Jarod Kintz

“Dear god what if you are a cabin in the woods?”

— Nils-Øivind Haagensen

“it's hard to avoid the suspicion that in seeing all the trees I missed the wood”

— Anton Chekhov