Branches Quote by Thomas Gray

Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.

— Alexander Pope

Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest…

— John Milton

Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,…

— Edmund Spenser

“The oak tree is firm and elegant and upright. The weeping willow has allowed the burdens of life to bend it.”

— Panache Desai

In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the…

— Edgar Fawcett

The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.

— Wallace Stevens

Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers…

— Alexander Pope

Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The dusk rapidly deepened; the glades grew dark; the crackling of the fire and the wash of little waves along the rocky lake shore…

— Algernon Blackwood

I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.

— Donald Hall

“Beauty was all around them. Unsuspected tintings glimmered in the dark demesnes of the woods and glowed in their alluring by-ways. The spring sunshine…

— L.M. Montgomery