Barren Quote by Karen Chance

Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

— Hannah Whitall Smith

Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For…

— Shirley Ann Grau

“A farmer’s crops weren’t doing well. He had tried everything he could with the land and soil he had, but no matter what he…

— Eula McGrevey

“When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.”

— Thomas Carlyle

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

— Alan Watts

Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a…

— Augustus William Hare

“An acorn is an oak tree turned inside out.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.”

— Betsy Lerner

Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree…

— Henry Chorley

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For my sustenance at night, the whole that my hands can glean from the gloom of the oak-gloomed oaks-- the herbs and the plenteous…

— Flann O'Brien

“An acorn is an oak tree inside out.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo