Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Twine from trees and plants can make good floss!
But a smell shivered him awake. It was a scent as old as the world. It was a hundred aromas of a thousand places. It was the tang of pine needles. It was the musk of sex. It was the muscular rot of mushrooms. It was the spice of oak. Meaty and redole...
Do jungle animals understand the true nature of the trees among which they have their daily being? In the parent-forest, amid those mighty trunks, we shelter and play; but whether the trees are healthy or corroded, whether they harbour demons or good...
Superfluity was the only relationship I could establish between these trees, these hedges, these paths. Vainly I strove to compute the number of the chestnut trees, or their distance from the Velleda, or their height as compared with that of the plan...
For you, that tree is dead.
Behind every tree there's a new monster.
As the tree is bent, so it will grow.
Trees are the earth's example of beauty, duty, wisdom and happiness.
When the last tree has been cut down, the last river has been polluted and the last fish has been caught -- only then do you realize that money can't buy everything:
Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and ...
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup. Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Sce...
With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Ano...
I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic.
As a child I'd get given parts as a tree.
There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
But only God can make a tree.
There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
All our wisdom is stored in the trees.
The roots of the strongest tree grow deep.
I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
