Inanimate objects Quote by William Shenstone

Every acorn on the ground is just as alive as the three-hundred-year-old oak tree that towers over it.

— Hope Jahren

“A wandering carpenter, called Stone, saw on his travels a gigantic old oak tree standing in a field near an earth-altar. The carpenter said…

— Chuang Tzu

“Grass that is here today and gone tomorrow does not require much time to mature. A giant oak tree that lasts for generations requires…

— Henry T. Blackaby

The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal…

— Bob Goodlatte

Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree…

— Henry Chorley

Compared with me, a tree is immortal.

— Sylvia Plath

This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

— William Wordsworth

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

— George Henry Lewes

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

— Panache Desai

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

— Karen Joy Fowler

At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely:…

— Eugene Delacroix

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it…

— Joseph Beuys