When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have s….
Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesqu….
Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as thoug….
I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the….
There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tr….
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood..
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamo….
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily ….
The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stopping short at a unifor….
The dignity of self is greatly enhanced by looking upward in the search for holiness. Like the giant trees, we should reach up for the light. The mo….
The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-bl….
The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened..
If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to ….
And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They would no….
A tree without roots is just a piece of wood..
Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree..
A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can only specialise is like a monkey w….
The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber..
Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschoo….
A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections..
If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am jus….