Quote by Robert Jordan

“Our Fathers finde their graves in our short memories… Generations passe while some trees stand, and old Families last not three Oaks.” His”

— J.D. Taylor

“Oaks live for six hundred years. Two hundred to grow, two hundred to live, two hundred to die.”

— David Mitchell

“We should bury the bodies,” Sam said. Gabriel shook her head. “We haven’t got time. There are two hundred and sixty seven bodies here.…

— Phillip W. Simpson

“That would have to be important. How fast did a forest’s heart beat? Once a year, maybe. Yes, that sounded about right. Out there…

— Terry Pratchett

“A person should be buried only half a meter, or two feet, below the surface. Then a tree should be planted there. He should…

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

“When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Aren't you afraid of death, oak? How can you speak so casually about it?' The trees creaked their bare branches until it seemed to…

— Felix Salten

“at the bottom of the waiting grave. He picked up the shovel and set about filling in the hole. He labored for some time,…

— Rayven T. Hill

“The silver-haired elf woman Yaela had knelt by the side of the grave, taken an acorn from the pouch on her belt, and planted…

— Christopher Paolini

“They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my…

— Willie Morris

“The trees seemed to have eyes that were watching us and reaching out for me. They began to take on the shape of the…

— Amber Newberry

“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