Branches Quote by Kathleen Raine

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling…

— Muriel Barbery

“First, picture the forest. I want you to be its conscience, the eyes in the trees. The trees are columns of slick, brindled bark…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I have seen trees that survive fire. Their bark is burned and their limbs are dead branches. But hidden under that skeleton is a…

— Holly Goldberg Sloan

“Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief.”

— Arundhati Roy

“Trees scream and drop bright leaves”

— Allen Ginsberg

Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will…

— Mark Nepo

It is only by spring that the death of the autumns returns. What about winter, which is death? When the pure snow white covers…

— Sorin Cerin

“We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree—deeply rooted to withstand all…

— Dodinsky

When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.

— Jodi Thomas

I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they…

— May Sarton

“Our enemy is man with his arrogance and greed. The woodsman in particular. Destroyer of trees. Clearer of land. Owner of fire. While he…

— Ron Koertge

“Trees do mourn the loss of their leaves. This fall, take a moment to listen to their mourning and observe how easily they overcome…

— Bhuwan Thapaliya