Walnut Trees Quotes:

A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.

- John Ray

topic: Tree, Walnuts, Walnut Trees, Spaniels

I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.

- Walt Disney

topic: Land, Rivers, Orange, Walnuts, Walnut Trees

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. . . . If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

- William Saroyan

topic: Wise, Art, Writing, Walnuts, Walnut Trees

There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in the words of Faust; "O gentle moon, that lookest for the last time upon my agonies!" --or something to that effect.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Moon, Opposites, Agony, Walnuts, Walnut Trees

My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.

- Larry Towell

source: "10 Photographers Share ‘An Image That Changed Everything’ And The Stories Behind Them" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

topic: Tired, Years, Wife, Walnuts, Walnut Trees

On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered; Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee, Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree.

- William C. Bryant

topic: Children, Echoes, Tree, Walnuts, Walnut Trees