Boys Quote by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

— Josh Ritter

So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“The second I left my old life's cowpath, I discovered I didn't need a drink. It became possible to stand still in the dark…

— Walker Percy

“The trees had stripped down to their black bones and had heaped leaves in drifts against hedges and walls. Children played amongst them, tossing…

— J.L. Carr

“BEYOND THE FARM, they’d heard, there were strange pale children who grew up entirely indoors and knew nothing of the fields and streams. Some…

— Julie Otsuka

“The survivors ran through the fields, escaping From themselves, knowing they wouldn't return For a hundred years. Before them were spread Those quicksands where…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“under the naked oak tree”

— M.J. Ware

“Out on the roads the pilgrims sank down and fell over and died and the bleak and shrouded earth went trundling past the sun…

— Cormac McCarthy

somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .

— R. S. Thomas

Behind the sea and under the blue sky where I will never lost my heart around the great tree with its green leaves ..

— Anonymous

“People here had redwood trees in their backyards. You were never far from the infinite.”

— Amy Stewart

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

— Dante Alighieri