Elm Trees Quotes:

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

topic: Love, Summer, Flower, Elm Trees

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Snow, Tree, Pearls, Twigs, Elm Trees

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

- Publilius Syrus

topic: Tree, Advice, Pears, Elm Trees

The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind...

- Charles Dickens

topic: Mother, Nature, Garden, Elm Trees

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

- Willie Morris

topic: Family, Dog, Brother, Dealing With Death, Sympathy For Loss

Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me, The fern and moss to creep across, And the elm-tree for our king!

- William Allingham

topic: Kings, Spring, Yellow, Elm Trees, Ferns

Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Children, Doors, House, Wooden House, Elm Trees

If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

topic: Thinking, Rivers, Imagination, Rustic, Elm Trees

Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Nature, Wall, Rain, Creepers, Monasteries