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  • When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

    Science   Sky   Tree  
  • It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

    Nature   Heart   Men  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4945, e-artnow
  • I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

    "Song of the Open Road" l. 1 (1933) See Kilmer 1
  • When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured.

    Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”
  • The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

    Nature   Moving   Eye  
    William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin
  • Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

    "Countryman: A Summary of Belief". Book by Hal Borland, 1965.
  • Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.

    Nature   Garden   Tree  
    "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There".
  • The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that sometime an immortal pine will be the flag of a united and peaceful world.

    Garden   Tree   Peaceful  
  • In the woods we return to reason and faith.

    Nature   Garden   Tree  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.30, Penguin
  • A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

    Nature   Heart   Autumn  
    "Sundial of the Seasons". Book by Hal Borland, 1964.
  • I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

    Summer   Sweet   Nature  
    "Trees" l. 11 (1913)
  • I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

    "Trees" l. 1 (1913)
  • I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.

    Sweet   Thinking   Tree  
    Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”
  • A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

    Life   Song   Cutting  
    John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.

    Inspiring   Tree   Youth  
    "Woodman, Spare That Tree" l. 1 (1830) See Thomas Campbell 2
  • Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

    Play   Tree   Forests  
  • The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

  • The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

    John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.1701, e-artnow
  • God cannot save them from fools.

    Tree   Avalanches   Fool  
  • Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

    Trust   Sarcastic   Men  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5804, e-artnow
  • In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

    Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.266, Best Books on
  • The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

    John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

  • What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

    Carpe Diem   Sky   Tree  
    Pablo Neruda (1991). “The book of questions”, Copper Canyon Pr
  • There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

  • There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

    Lonely   Nature   Travel  
    'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178
  • Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.

    Tree   Humanity   Earth  
    Sandra Postel, Lori Heise (1988). “Reforesting the earth”, Worldwatch Inst
  • As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

    Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated
  • Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

    Men   Ideas   Tree  
    "Sources of World Civilization: Since 1500". Book by Oliver A. Johnson, 1993.
  • Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got of their bark hides.

    Running   Fun   Long  
    John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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