Bark Quote by Vera Nazarian

“You told me trees could speak and the only reason one heard silence in the forest was that they had all been born knowing…

— Carol Goodman

“Listen to the language of the trees they speak in silence learn that alphabet.”

— Christina Strigas

The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as…

— Patience Strong

“The trees' bony fingers make spell-casting gestures in the wind as they pass.”

— David Foster Wallace

Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets…

— Rumi

The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon,…

— Carlos Castaneda

“To our indigenous ancestors, and to the many aboriginal peoples who still hold fast to their oral traditions, language is less a human possession…

— David Abram

“Most often they speak according to their kind – the deep rumble of oak, the whisper of the birch, or the singsong chant of…

— Maryrose Wood

“Trees are silent guards, they are the listeners and they hold knowledge mankind has long forgotten.” - The Wolf and The Druidess”

— Cornelia Amiri

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and…

— David Almond

If trees could speak they wouldn't

— Dorianne Laux

To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

— Ruskin Bond