Best Old Trees Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du

“I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.”

People Age Tree Shadow Calm Admire Old People Freshness Old Trees

Author:Svetlana Alliluyeva

“Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.”

Mind Wells Age Young Difficult Behinds Tree Youth All Things Ran Difficult Things Sap Be Young Old Trees

Book:The doctor

Source: The doctor

“I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.”

World Way Moral Steps Gone Path Tree Roots Down And Forests Lions New World Pioneers Old Trees

Book:America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer

Source: America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer

“I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. Its a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.”

World Tree Rivers Property South Corners Massive Swimming Spectacular Carolina Moss South Carolina Inns Alligators Bluffs Corners Of The World Old Trees

Author:Gail Simmons

“Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered together! It is like an old tree with shoots, And with some branches rotted and falling.”

Together Fall Three House Generations Tree Oppression Branches Adolescence Hideous Old Trees Three Generations

Book:Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)

“The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.”

Thinking Looks Kind Stills Tree Wind Kings Forests Chairs Grandmother Old Trees Rocking Chairs Dozing

Author:Billy Wilder

“While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide the value of a 700-year-old tree? We need only to ask how much it would cost to make a new one, or a new river, or even a new atmosphere.”

Way Needs Giving Years May Values Asks Tree Cost Rivers Forests Atmosphere Right Way Wrong Way Old Trees

Author:Paul Hawken

“The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it; for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut.”

Men Body Spirit Tree Subjects Delight Nuts Worms Drunkenness Ivy Old Trees

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works

“Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?”

Made Sweet Brother Court Woods This Life Customs Mates Exile Peril You Like It Envious Old Trees

Author:William Shakespeare

“The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.”

Fall Tree Ruins Companionship Vines Old Trees

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.”

Running Steps Tree Perspective Forests Again And Again Keep Running Old Trees

Author:Bill Crawford

“To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.”

Way Feels Able Walks Tree Garden Branches Old Trees Tree Planting Plants And Trees Tree Branches

Author:Mirabel Osler

“I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.”

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

Life Reality Nature Tree Strength Depression Roots Deeper Storm Inner Strength Being Strong Makes You Stronger Parkinson Old Trees Deep Roots Instrumentalists

Author:Dolly Parton

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”