Trees have as much individuality as human beings. Not even two spruces are alike. There is always some kink or curve or bend of bough to single each ….
For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be. Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea. O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tr….
Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread..
Many a family tree needs trimming.
I use a lot of similes and metaphors when I work, simply because it's my best way of describing a building or a scene. I'm terrible at describing lan….
I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get….
Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and... rememberest that what….
Life is miraculous, even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible, I'm fascinated with everything, life is fascinating, I'm fascinated by trees an….
The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cas….
How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable….
A tree fell on Greg Abbott - he sued and got millions..
Trace cursed. He actually wanted to hit something, but a tree would break his knuckles, he didn't want to put another dent in the truck, and Dare wou….
Everyone at Coral Tree Prep was good-looking. Really. Everyone. I didn't see a single fat or ugly kid all morning. Maybe they just locked them up at ….
With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting..
At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I fai….
I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner e….
Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to constr….
Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even if it's not obvious that they ….
Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as a young girl, whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the woods. Being in the stillnes….
I realized that a tree never says, "I have too many branches." It simply digs deeper roots, expands itself to catch more light, and extends itself in….
The bark on the tree was just a little softer..