Trees Quote by Michael Burkard

“The trees were like black skeletons reaching to the sky, pleading with their bony arms for the sun to get stronger.”

— J.R. Ward

“The sky was low and broody, but from here, near the treeline, you could see the forest rolling down into the valley, the lake…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“The sun was really rising, taking the temperature up with it, hot shards of searing light coming over the treetops to stab at everything…

— Leonard Mokos

“The long black nights, when the moon hides her face, when the stars are afraid, are not so black. The silence that dwells in…

— Oscar Wilde

“So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my longing for…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“So this is how they lived. For some time Theo, like a tree living in the shadow of taller trees, found a way to…

— Dave Eggers

“The stars are reflected from within the black water in the cistern. I find comfort in the omen I glean from this: light in…

— Alice Hoffman

“Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow inward together…

— Eudora Welty

“She pressed her fingertips to the cold glass. Outside the night was beautiful but frozen. The trees were still as statues. Above the trees…

— Nicola Cornick

“Let us cross over the river, and rest in the shade of the trees.”

— Thomas Jackson

“First the light in the sky was no bigger than the moon, then it seemed larger, infinitely larger, and the whole grove trembled and…

— Neil Gaiman

“Dark of the invisible moon. The night now only slightly less black. By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother…

— Cormac McCarthy