Air Quote by Patience Strong

You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats…

— Wallace Stevens

Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets…

— Rumi

The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush…

— John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.

— Adelaide Crapsey

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But…

— John Muir

“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

Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through…

— Virginia Woolf

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“You told me trees could speak and the only reason one heard silence in the forest was that they had all been born knowing…

— Carol Goodman

“Above his monotonous voice one could hear, now and again, a little wind stray through the drying leaves of the trees. A leaf or…

— Frederic Manning

“In the fall, trees are beautiful. I wonder how such beauty is followed by death. How do leaves change to such amazing colors, but…

— Rasha Riad