Old man Quote by William Boyd

“ The Oak Live thy Life, Young and old, Like yon oak, Bright in spring, Living gold; Summer-rich Then; and then Autumn-changed Soberer-hued Gold…

— Alfred Tennyson

“under the naked oak tree”

— M.J. Ware

“What he longs for instead, as he sits at the food-strewn table, is winter, winter itself. He wants the essentiality of winter, not this…

— Ali Smith

“Above us hung a tapestry of silver and gold and palest green that in my world had faded into white: a great oak so…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter.…

— Andrew Wyeth

“I prefer winter and fall, when you can feel the bone structure in the landscape---the lonliness of it---the dead feeling of winter. Something waits…

— Andrew Wyeth

“It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say…

— Roman Payne

“We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will…

— Arthur Golden

The aged oak upon the steep stands more firm and secure if assailed by angry winds; for if the winter bares its head, the…

— Pietro Metastasio

“The frolic architecture of the snow.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“On increasingly warm nice days I liked to sit toward noon on the bench encircling the cherry tree and look at the bare trees,…

— Adalbert Stifter

“Winter had long since come. It was freezing cold. Torn-up sounds and forms appeared with no evident connection from the frosty mist, stood, moved,…

— Boris Pasternak