Merciful god Quote by Pete Aldin

“The forest has been growing for hundreds of years. Each time a child is born, a tree is planted. You could see from his…

— Henning Mankell

“And it came to me that these trees had been hardly smaller when I was yet unborn, and had stood as they stood now…

— Gene Wolfe

“For it is the young tree grown out of the old root which shall illuminate what the old tree has been in its wonders.”

— Jacob Boehem

“When I die, she said, I am coming back as a tree with deep roots and I'll wave my leaves to the children every…

— Brian Andreas

“Trees make you feel younger. And the older the tree, the younger you feel. Whenever”

— Ruskin Bond

“They found a thick tree that had fallen, the tangled roots exposed. They saw the drenched ground that had given way. The tree seemed…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

“The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.”

— Ishmael Beah

“Sacredness and profanity and prayers and wishes: they're all held together by the broken limbs of this dead tree, raking the night sky with…

— Elora Bishop

“The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary with age, enfeebled, dry. So more the things remain the same,…

— John Knowles

“But now that I can see it all as from a lonely hilltop, I know it was the story of a mighty vision given…

— Black Elk

“In my old age, I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children, and that…

— Eowyn Ivey