Birch Trees Quotes:

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

- Robert Frost

source: Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.218, Harvard University Press

topic: Dream, Birch Trees

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

- Paul Muldoon

source: Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.

topic: Tree, Way, Frost, Birch Trees

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Nature, Eight, Yellow, Inspirational Tree, Arbor Day

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

source: Mountain Interval (1916) "Birches"

topic: Climbing, White, Snow, Climbing Trees, Birch Trees

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

- Robert Frost

topic: Nature, Climbing Trees, Birch Trees, Tree Branches

The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.

- Lisa Ann Sandell

topic: Tree, Brotherhood, Ghost, Birch Trees

When I can go just where I want to go, There is a copse of birch trees that I know; And, as in Eden Adam walked with God, When in that quiet aisle my feet have trod I have found peace among the silver trees, Known comfort in the cool kiss of the breeze Heard music in its whisper, and have known Most certainly that I was not alone!

- Andrew Greeley

topic: Kissing, Eden, Feet, Birch Trees

I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted sunlight streaming through a birch tree. 'Only with shape and features of course. I like to fancy souls as being made of light. And some are all shot through with rosy stains and quivers…and some have a soft glitter like moonlight on the sea…and some are pale and transparent like mist at dawn.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

source: Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.332, e-artnow

topic: Thinking, Light, Sea, Streaming, Rosy

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Famous Love, Inspirational Love, Need Love, Free Love

I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

- Geri Halliwell

topic: Reading, Garden, Tree, Birch Trees

On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then the woods with a few birch trees shining white at the edge on beyond. In the darkness it all looked just like I felt. Wet and swampy and gloomy, very gloomy. In the morning I painted it. My memory of it is that it was probably my best painting that summer.

- Georgia O'Keeffe

topic: Summer, Morning, Memories, Marshes, Tall

In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not tell a birch tree it should be more like an elm. We face it with no agenda, only an appreciation that becomes participation: 'I love looking at this birch' becomes 'I am this birch' and then 'I and this birch are opening to a mystery that transcends and holds us both.

- David Richo

topic: Appreciation, Tree, Mindfulness, Birch Trees

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Love, Life, Tree, Need Love, Loving Others

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

- Bertolt Brecht

source: Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.276, Taylor & Francis

topic: Tree, Storm, Violent, Birch Trees

The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can he hide in holy black The heron's hunch upon his back, But a birch-tree stood my Jack....

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Feet, Hypocrisy, Safety, Herons, Birch Trees

The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

- E. Nesbit

source: Edith Nesbit, “Child's Song In Spring”

topic: I Love Him, Cities, Tree, Chestnuts, Birch Trees

Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.

- Paul Stamets

topic: Mushrooms, Tree, May, Birch Trees