Paul Angiolillo
When Asia asked if there was anything special I wanted to
say about trees, my reaction, after a moment’s thought, was: What’s not special about trees? What hasn’t
been rightly celebrated about these giant creatures? I thought I’d Google some
quotes about trees. Here are some of my favorites:
It has been said that trees are imperfect men,
and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem
so to me. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they
liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go
wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like
ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and
through space heaven knows how fast and far! ~John Muir, July 1890
You can live for years next door to a big
pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles
all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still
of night. ~Denise Levertov
The groves were
God’s first temples. ~William Cullen Bryant
I think that I
shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I’ll never see a tree at all. ~Ogden Nash,
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I’ll never see a tree at all. ~Ogden Nash,
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