In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
'One Tree Hill' was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.
I'm an adrenaline junkie. I love climbing crazy trees or cliffs, which doesn't make my mom very happy.
The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.
I was always in hospital as a kid: I had a tumour on my knee, lots of broken bones. I loved climbing trees.
When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
A woman without a past is like a fruitcake without brandy—insipid!” Aunt Augusta in Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree.
Beauty of trees is not judged by shape, size and species, then why ours?
This kiss was different from the first one under the olive tree. That one had been unplanned, she was pretty sure. This kiss had intention and hunger branded all over it. It was like one of those kisses you read about in fairy tales—but Alana had n...
When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the ocean. But as the creek moves down through the fields, it becomes larg...
Do stones feel? Do they love their life? Or does their patience drown out everything else? When I walk on the beach I gather a few white ones, dark ones, the multiple colors. Don’t worry, I say, I’ll bring you back, and I do. Is the tree as it ri...
When I look back on the sixteen years Perry and I have been married, I can see the places where we've made each other better. There are parts of us etched into each other like the rings in the trunk of a tree. We've grown, we've changed, we've been f...
When I speak of God, I mean that god who prevented man from putting forth his hand and taking also of the fruit of the tree of life that he might live forever; of that god who multiplied the agonies of woman, increased the weary toil of man, and in h...
