Pippin: [of Treebeard] It's talking, Merry. The tree is talking.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two TowersI like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa CatherUnless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Walter ScottOne will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
Paul MuldoonSuburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Bill Vaughan