Tall Trees Quotes

• The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Dream, Wall, Sleep

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Grenbry Outhwaite, Annie R. Rentoul (2016). “Fairyland”, p.146, Courier Corporation

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• By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.

  Sakya Pandita

  Tree, Growth, May

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• For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hard Times, Frustration, Rocks

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• This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.

  Neil Young

  Tree, World, Wonder

  Neil Young (2008). “Neil Young - Greatest Hits (Songbook)”, p.65, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Powerful, Men, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.76

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• Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

  Karle Wilson Baker

  Nature, Earth Day, Tree

  Karle Wilson Baker, Sarah Ragland Jackson, Charlotte Baker Montgomery (2006). “The Birds of Tanglewood”, p.42, Texas A&M University Press

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• I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

  Cesar Pelli

  Strong, Moving, Past

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• I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.

  Lawrence Fagg

  Two, Tree, Grace

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.39, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.

  John James Audubon

  Giving, Tree, Hints

  John James Audubon (1969). “Audubon, by Himself: A Profile of John James Audubon from Writings”

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• I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. Its where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artworks sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.

  Jessica McNamee

  Aunt, Australia, People

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• You'll get back to where you came from.

  William Golding

  Get Back

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.154, Penguin

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• He splayed a hand out over the photographs, trembling fingers not quite touching the shiny surface, and then he turned and leaned toward me, slowly, with the improbable grace of a tall tree falling. He buried his face in my shoulder and went very quietly and thoroughly to pieces.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Fall, Hands, Tree

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1700, Dell

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• The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Sunshine, Bird

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Drinking, Rain

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

  Walter Scott

  Tree, Fruit, Suits

  Sir Walter Scott (1826). “The Poetical Works of Walter Scott”, p.380

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• Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspin good for staves, the cypress funeral, The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepest still, The yew obedient to the bender's will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platane round, The carver holm, the maple seldom inward sound.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Kings, Funeral

  1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 1, stanzas 8-9. plantan=plane tree; holme=holly.

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• It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Reading, Heart, Growth

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.4, Macmillan

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• By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself!

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Tree, Green, Way

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• The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and only hope, hope only, the kind eagle soars and wheels in flight.

  Martin Carter

  Hope, Eagles, Hands

  Martin Carter (1964). “Poems of Resistance”

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• I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye; And I reach to the shore of the sea With my ear. Nevertheless, I dislike The way the ants crawl In and out of my shadow.

  Wallace Stevens

  Eye, Sea, Tree

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.45, Vintage

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• But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.

  Dar Williams

  Tree, Washington State, States

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• A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet their roots. Where the wind smells of game and wildflowers." "Why, that was lovely, Lord Bill. Do you ever write poetry? Something for your blueblood lady?" "No." "She doesn't like poetry?" "Leave it." Hehe. "Oh, so you have a lady. How interes--

  Ilona Andrews

  Writing, Autumn, Expression

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.55, Penguin

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• ...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops of high walls and dive into the sea from high rocks... The same with girls. I like the type of child who takes risks. Better by far than the one who never does so.

  Roald Dahl

  Girl, Children, Wall

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• All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror. Hearts weigh quite a lot. That is why it takes so long to grow one. But, as in their reading and arithmetic and drawing, different children proceed at different speeds. (It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.) Some small ones are terrible and fey, Utterly Heartless. Some are dear and sweet and Hardly Heartless at all.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sweet, Children, Reading

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