Acacia Quote by Rebecca West

“How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All dies! and not alone The aspiring trees and men and grass; The poets' forms of beauty pass, And noblest deeds they are undone,…

— Herman Melville

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust…

— Oscar Wilde

“Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief.”

— Arundhati Roy

Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When…

— Philip James Bailey

“Life without sorrows is like tree without leaves.”

— Amaya.H.M

“Statement Preliminary to the Invention of Solace Whether they bend as compliantly as black leaves Curved and hanging in the heavy dew in the…

— Pattiann Rogers

“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were…

— Sheri S. Tepper

“What an irony it is that these living beings whose shade we sit in, whose fruit we eat, whose limbs we climb, whose roots…

— Jim Robbins

“ Ars Poetica A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old medallions to the thumb, Silent as the…

— Archibald MacLeish

“When Death, or adverse Fortune's ruthless gale, Tears our best hopes away, the wounded Heart Exhausted, leans on all that can impart The charm…

— Anna Seward

“I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, ‘Tis all barren—and so it is; and so is all the…

— Laurence Sterne