Quotes by category:Tree

The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid's cabin looked like an iced cake.

cabins cake tree

The ripest peach is highest on the tree by James Whitcomb Riley

The ripest peach is highest on the tree

James Whitcomb Riley

peaches fruit tree

An unbearable smug look came over his usually impassive face."Uh-huh. You just keep telling youself that. You looove me." I took a swing at him, but he jumped back nimbly, and all I did was jar my left arm, making it hurt. He laughed at me, then pointed at the woods ouside the window."Pick a tree. I'll go carve our initials in it.

James Patterson

swings hurt tree

In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.

blue tree laughing

Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday. by James Russell Lowell

Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.

James Russell Lowell

tree fall thinking

Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it." -Fang by James Patterson

Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it." -Fang

James Patterson

maximum-ride initials tree

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pe... by James Russell Lowell

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

James Russell Lowell

pearls tree snow

Something looks back from the trees, by Jane Hirshfield

Something looks back from the trees,

Jane Hirshfield

who-i-am tree looks

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

Jane Hirshfield

roots heart tree

I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead.

skins roots tree

Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That great calm being, this clutter of soup pots and books-- Already the first branch-tips brush at the window. Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.

Jane Hirshfield

house tree book

Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his... by Jane Powell

Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.

To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.

awe-and-wonder tree water

Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.

girl flower tree

Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.

Jane Hirshfield

grief self tree

Time for bed.” I held my fist out. One by one, my flock stacked theirs on top, and then we headed up into the trees to sleep the sleep of the innocent. Well, okay, maybe not so innocent. But the sleep of the much less guilty than others, for sure.

James Patterson

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom by Janet Erskine Stuart

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom

Janet Erskine Stuart

mushrooms tree advice

Fang (sarcasticaly): Go pick out a tree and I'll carve our initials in it. Max: (screams and goes in the bathroom)

James Patterson

bathroom max tree

Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.

fruit growing tree

Here come the hum the golden bees by James Russell Lowell

Here come the hum the golden bees

James Russell Lowell

glowing flower tree