Antiques Quote by Wallace Stevens

“THE WOOD is dark and the wood is deep and the trees claw at the sky with branches like bones, ripping holes in the…

— Mira Grant

Voices in the forest tell of dark and twisted enchantments - as dark and twisted as the roots and grasping branches of the trees…

— Brian Froud

“First, picture the forest. I want you to be its conscience, the eyes in the trees. The trees are columns of slick, brindled bark…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy, since they cannot change their places, are witnesses of all the changes…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling…

— Muriel Barbery

I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth…

— Jane Goodall

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Love for trees pours out of her—the grace of them, their supple experimentation, the constant variety and surprise. These slow, deliberate creatures with their…

— Richard Powers

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

— Martha Gellhorn

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing…

— Kathleen Raine

“If you are in the mountains alone for some time, many days at minimum, & it helps if you are fasting. The forest grows…

— Charles Frazier