I did not want to think about people. I wanted the trees, the scents and colors, the shifting shadows of the wood, which spoke a language I understood. I wished I could simply disappear in it, live li...
The mountain trees that grew between the pines were a brilliant blaze of fall colors, like fire against the emerald green of the pines, firs and pruces. And it was, as I'd told myself long ago, the ye...
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.
Haunted trees covered behind the curtains of their own leaves stare at the dark from the fringe of streets.
If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write
Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and w...
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter
On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o'clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the dark. We walk to the other end of town, as the big harbour is just the right setting for buying a Christ...
There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of d...
The root system supports the branches.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Trees are the soul collectors come to life.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn
Don't hide in the trees when you know that tigers can climb.
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.
Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
Winkler's breath plumed up onto his glasses. The entire valley was enveloped in a huge, illuminated stillness. Above him the clouds had pulled away and the sky burned with stars. The meadow smoldered...