Almonds Quote by Linda Gregg

When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What vanity,' they…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“There is a steady dripping sound of yesterday’s rain sliding down branches and splashing on rocks, into the stream, or onto the soft ground.…

— Erica Crouch

The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in…

— William Blake

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

— Eyvind Kang

Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be…

— George Parsons Lathrop

In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the…

— William Kean Seymour

My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The Major had…

— Helen Simonson

Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So…

— Marilynne Robinson

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

— Henry David Thoreau

“Orchards of silver trees bore the most delicious fruits that had ever existed. The angels feasted and gave thanks for their first and only…

— Lauren Kate