Quote by Katherine Arden

“I carve things of wood because things made by effort are more real than things made by wishing.”

— Katherine Arden

“His hands are miracles. I can watch them for hours, transforming wood into something it never dreamed of being.”

— Katja Millay

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?”

— Lewis Carroll

“Out of used furniture she made a tree.”

— Anne Sexton

“True craft isn’t in holding tight, but in release: letting wood reveal its wild grain, letting self dissolve into the hum beneath all things.”

— Ronen Dancziger

“When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Maybe my limbs are made mostly for decoration, like the way I feel about persimmons.”

— Ada Limon

“No matter how hard they try, they'll never create anything so perfectly beautiful as what plays out in my own imagination.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“There are things in the wood, things you wouldn't expect. There's a laugh behind a tree when nobody's around to make it. A flash…

— Rebecca Hahn

“She found the company that made her favorite architectural model trees. They weren't the most realistic, they weren't even well made. She didn't like…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“...which she had spent long and happy hours releasing from their shells, with crazy dedication, because the shelling of pine-kernels is a form of…

— Salman Rushdie

“Really? You actually told him that pasta came from a man-made tree?”

— L. Filloon