Accounts Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“By the time a tree is full-grown, the underground root system is enormous; a mature oak tree, for example, has literally hundreds of miles…

— Richard M. Ketchum

The aged oak upon the steep stands more firm and secure if assailed by angry winds; for if the winter bares its head, the…

— Pietro Metastasio

Cracks make caves collapse.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one…

— Napoleon Hill

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

— George Herbert

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

— William Shenstone

The winter oak... is very useful in buildings but when in a moist place it takes in water to its centre... and so it…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

— Peter Marshall

Every acorn on the ground is just as alive as the three-hundred-year-old oak tree that towers over it.

— Hope Jahren

“The oaks stand - quite still - so still that the lichen loves them...such solace and solitude seventy-nine miles thick cannot be painted...it is…

— Jefferies Richard 1848-1887

Every time something slips through the cracks, the cracks get bigger.

— Jason Fried

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