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  • No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

    Cutting   Tree   Matter  
    Twitter post from Jan 02, 2013
  • It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it is pumping downy seeds into the air. ... spreading DNA whose coded characters spell out specific instructions for building willow trees that will shed a new generation of downy seeds. ... It is raining instructions out there; it's raining programs; it's raining tree-growing, fluff-spreading, algorithms. That is not a metaphor, it is the plain truth. It couldn't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs.

    Rain   Character   Garden  
    "The Blind Watchmaker". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1986.
  • It were a blessed sight to see That child become a willow tree, His brother trees among. He'd be four times as tall as me, And live three times as long.

    Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1876). “The Literary Remains of Catherine Maria Fanshawe”, p.71
  • The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls.

    Wall   Wind   Tree  
  • A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair was standing under a tree, her face tilted up in delight as its feathery leaves brushed across her face, framing it. A willow tree. Willow.

    Girl   Hair   Long  
  • The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.

  • Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and scatter floating catkins. A ponderous wave of flowers sags the branches.

    Spring   Flower   Light  
  • All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.

    Tree   Green   Garlands  
    'The Green Willow'.
  • Have you ever been through a painful season in life and wished for something new, something fresh, or even something healing to come along? Take this journey with Robin Price, a widow and single mother with a big heart and passion for those closest to her as she wades through trying to live, let go, and love again. Wishing on Willows is a story of hope that will find you stepping up to the willow tree and daring to make wishes

  • As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

    War   Thinking   Lakes  
    George Orwell (1969). “Coming Up for Air”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Just Me, Just Me Sweet Marie, she loves just me (She also loves Maurice McGhee). No she don't, she loves just me (She also loves Louise Dupree). No she don't, she loves just me (She also loves the willow tree). No she don't, she loves just me! (Poor, poor fool, why can't you see She can love others and still love thee.)

    Sweet   Tree   Fool  
  • The willow tree plays the water like a harp.

    Play   Water   Tree  
  • What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

    Children   Tree   Pity  
    Elizabeth George Speare (2011). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

    Racism   Tree   Body  
  • I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

    "Miranda Kerr: face of a goddess, figure of an Angel, wife of an elf". Interview with Miranda Collinge, www.esquire.com. May 1, 2013.
  • I like to go to places with my high-fashion things where there are a lot of cameras. So I can just go there and be like, 'Yep, yep, I'm looking so sick.' But in my regular life, I put on clothes that I can climb trees in.

    Fashion   Clothes   Sick  
    "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.
  • Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound traditional around the story. This is one she's called mother willow tree, it's beautiful

    Beautiful   Mother   Song  
  • In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

    Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The Rosemary Tree”, p.76, Hachette UK
  • Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.14, Tuttle Publishing
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