Trees, Forests and Mountains
Oliver Wendell Holmes
There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
D.H. Lawrence
I never knew how soothing trees are—many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.
Friedrich Nietzsche
But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep - into evil.
Willa Cather
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Rudyard Kipling
Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun, Than oak, and ash, and thorn.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks… Stand like Druids of old.
Walter Scott
O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood!
Alexander Pope
Where’er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade: Where’er you tread, the blushing flow’rs shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.