Lish Quote by Robert Walser

“Like the trees, his roots went deep, and I daydreamed that if he wrapped me in his arms, he could safely tuck me away…

— Colleen Houck

“He looked like a once-green leaf that had begun to dry and to reveal the structure of its veins.”

— Graham Joyce

“There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf.”

— J.M. Barrie

“he felt as if a tree had fallen and pinned him to the ground.”

— Erin Hunter

“I don't get it. It's a bunch of trees with leaves.”

— Cindy Woodsmall

“In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.”

— Alice Walker

“They found a thick tree that had fallen, the tangled roots exposed. They saw the drenched ground that had given way. The tree seemed…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“I popped out of a bamboo, fallen from the sky. Leave no leaf ripped, don't you ruin the nature. It makes me bitter, remembering…

— Toba Beta

“Besides, there was that foolish feeling of his that reality was not solid, and that facts were only plastic toys; or, rather, that they…

— Hope Mirrlees

“Was that what childhood was? Things rushing by out a window, the trees connected by motion, going too fast for him to notice the…

— Tom Franklin

“It's like this enormous tree had just crashed through the house and I was picking up the leaves so no one would notice what…

— Ann Patchett

“Preoccupied with a single leaf you won't see the tree.”

— Vagabond