Trees Quote by Robert Macfarlane

“Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious…

— Willa Cather

“It was a fine country, or would be, different from any she had known. But if it was the promised land, it was not…

— Karen Fisher

“Old woods and deep. At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned and these were like them.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Now it's your land. But it's important, at least to me,that you remember that it's not just your land. There is a history. Now…

— Robert Goolrick

“They have an army. You, as far as I can tell, have trees...”

— A.J. Smith

“I was not brought up to know the Earth in intimate detail. No one I can remember from my childhood ever suggested that the…

— Robin Rose Bennett

“For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land more than…

— Bruce-Novoa

“He had been here before, lots of times. He'd grown up with this recurring dream forest. Its roots were tangled in his veins.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“...Remember that nutty little story I told you about the first time I ever went overseas for my junior year abroad at Green Bay,…

— Lionel Shriver

“The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each ro themselves.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“I’d grown up feeling like the trees had eyes, each tangle of roots like a brain that held memories. I could feel, even now,…

— Adrienne Young

“I was born a forest, but I feel overwhelmed by all these trees.”

— Theladyfidgets