Trees Quote by Peter Carey

“The fir tree had grown a punk haircut, as it did every summer.”

— Nancy Adams

“Behind the building rose towering, aged pine trees whose shadows fell crabbed and arthritic across the lawn. The lawn was expansive and in good,…

— Walter Kirn

“The emphasis was helped by the speaker's hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the…

— Charles Dickens

“I studied the dusty street, the plastic walls and dries patches of piss. And I guess it was being left with just shantytowns and…

— Chris Howard

“My woodland lair was beautiful: a clearing that was green with life. It smelt of summer and rain and newness. It was patterned with…

— Gillian Philip

“My woods...the young fir balsams like a place Where houses all are churches and have spires.”

— Robert Frost

“The wind fights in the treetops; the leaves move in a hundred dialects of green...”

— Fredrik Backman

“We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end. The windows…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“As we stepped outside, the first thing I noticed was the heavy humidity. The temperature had to be in the eighties, which was fitting…

— Elle Vanzandt

“The way downhill, into the bottomless incredulity which is despair, was incandescent with flowering chestnut trees.”

— Elizabeth Bowen

“The faintly lit hatchway lay in the dark of the yard like a grave yawning at judgement day in some old apocalyptic painting.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“There is a soughing in the beech trees and the ash, and the small music of the hens.”

— Sebastian Barry