#trees

Trees're always a relief, after people. ↗

— David Mitchell

#forest #humanity #nature #trees #nature

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal. ↗

— Julius Sterling Morton

#become #cultivation #ennobling #good #i

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#color #different #eyes #get #greens

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross. ↗

— Paracelsus

#eyes #herbs #only #perceive #remedy

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#bark #branches #coming #course #foliage

I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making loquat pie. They're really hard to peel and everything, and it took me forever, but they make the best pies. They're amazing. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#backyard #best #bunch #everything #forever

Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#figures #landscape #little #perfect #relaxing

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. ↗

— Hamlin Garland

#breath #cedar #dawns #fragrant #hundred

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#god #gods #lightning #trees #wisdom

She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees. ↗

— Lynn Kurland

#trees #beauty