Acorns Quote by Thomas Carlyle

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.

— Jerry Coleman

“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

The trees may wish for quiet, but the wind will not subside.

— Anonymous

Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For…

— Shirley Ann Grau

How silent are the winds!

— Bryan Procter

Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

— May Sarton

Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral…

— Philip Larkin

Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

— Hannah Whitall Smith

How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

— D. H. Lawrence

“Acorn struggles in pain to crack the hard shell and emerge. For it senses that out there… exists more and it knows it. It…

— Robin Rumi