Trees

Famous quotes containing the word trees:

“The trees may wish for quiet, but the wind will not subside.”
—Chinese proverb.

“One wonders that the tithing-men and fathers of the town are not out to see what the trees mean by their high colors and exuberance of spirits, fearing that some mischief is brewing. I do not see what the Puritans did at this season, when the maples blaze out in scarlet. They certainly could not have worshiped in groves then. Perhaps that is what they built meeting-houses and fenced them round with horse-sheds for.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“trees grope with itch for Spring
go on and itch Trees you don’t know anything”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)