Chance Quote by Phillips Brooks

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be…

— Phillips Brooks

Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree…

— Henry Chorley

“The oak tree is firm and elegant and upright. The weeping willow has allowed the burdens of life to bend it.”

— Panache Desai

The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal…

— Bob Goodlatte

“A tree once saved my life. A posse was going to hang me, but this wise old oak would not let them. As a…

— Jarod Kintz

“A gentleman in those days consulted his heirs about tree planting. Should you plant a group of copper beeches against a group of white…

— Ford Madox Ford

“An alder tree can't become an oak at will. A maple can't pick up its roots like legs, and stride, step by powerful step,…

— Emily Whitman

“I will literally scale oak trees to avoid uncomfortable and undesired familial social interaction.”

— Laura Tims

“The “acorn-self” doesn’t know a life without fear; only the “oak tree–Self” grows beyond fear and anxiety.”

— Beatrice Chestnut

“I had started climbing trees about three years earlier, or rather, re-started; for I had been at a school that had a wood for…

— Robert Macfarlane

A tree's wood is also its memoir.

— Hope Jahren

What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in…

— Peter S. Beagle