#birch

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ↗

— George Eliot

#alphabet #birch #bit #end #father

It's a crime to be that hot and yet, that evil. ↗

— E.C. Newman

#nick #nick-birch #phase #humor

They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves. ↗

— Robert Frost

#inspirational #life #nature #trees #inspirational

It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big man had smiled at me not a minute since. And yet I say: it was the first smile, because it was the first that ever went straight into me like a needle too thin to be seen. ↗

— Carol Birch

#carol-birch #menagerie #smile #life

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. ↗

— Robert Frost

#snow

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. ↗

— Sean Bean

#birch #couple #doing #few #gardening

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#between #birch #bringing #consenting #consenting adults

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#after #again #birch #exactly #frost