Blades Quote by Robert Jordan

A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no…

— Swami Vivekananda

An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest.

— Ming-Dao Deng

“The sawdust flew. A slightly sweet fragrance floated in the immediate area. It was a sweet but subtle aroma, neither the scent of pine…

— Xiao Hong

It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and…

— Khalil Gibran

“Still, he always approahed the job with a faint reluctance, disliking the manner of it more than the result. Chopping down a tree for…

— Diana Gabaldon

“If you do not sharpen your axe, it will take twice the same amount of time to cut down the same amount of trees.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“And I would have answered: "The knottier the branch, the more twisted and misshapen, the more bent people called it, the harder it is…

— Sjón

“A wandering carpenter, called Stone, saw on his travels a gigantic old oak tree standing in a field near an earth-altar. The carpenter said…

— Chuang Tzu

I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth…

— Jane Goodall

Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive.…

— Nicole Williams

It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had…

— Denis Johnson

“gnarled podium of roots, the largest of them looking twenty or thirty feet thick. The trunk was comprised of dozens of intertwined boles, rising…

— Stephen King