Fallen Trees Quotes:

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

- Barbara Kingsolver

source: Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.547, Faber & Faber

topic: Tree, Trouble, Fallen, Fallen Trees, Firewood

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Life, Spiritual, Wisdom, Inspirational Tree, Arbor Day

But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty storm. All the other trees who witnessed the evil look down upon the fallen tree with envy. They pray for the day when a wind will end their suffering. I pray for the day when God will end mine.

- Julius Lester

source: Julius Lester (2009). “Guardian”, p.2, Harper Collins

topic: Pain, Wind, Envy, Fallen Trees, Evil Look

I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

- Ogden Nash

topic: Fall, Thinking, Tree, Inspirational Tree, Olive Trees

The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.

- Gregory David Roberts

source: Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.563, Macmillan

topic: Rip, Heart, Men, Natural Things, Fallen Trees

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

- John Muir

source: Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

topic: Peace, Nature, Sunshine, Beautiful Nature, Journeys And Paths

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

- Albert Camus

topic: Encouraging, Nature, Spring, Inspirational Flower, Spiritual Nature

I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!

- Louis Leakey

topic: Python, Feet, Tree, Fallen Trees

Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint wonders with his dark voice. Wonders and horrors both.

- R. Scott Bakker

source: R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.97, The Overlook Press

topic: Dark, Voice, Tree, Fallen Trees

At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that long after we had managed to send men to the moon and areoplanes to Australasia, we would still have such trouble knowing how to tolerate ourselves, forgive our loved ones, and apologise for our tantrums?

- Alain de Botton

topic: Moon, Men, Light, Fallen Trees

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

- Emily Bronte

source: Emily Bronte, “Fall, Leaves, Fall”

topic: Fall, Autumn, Tree, Inspirational Tree, Fallen Trees

I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked her if she liked fallen trees, she went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me, I needed to see her again, I couldn't explain my need to myself, and that's why it was such a beautiful need, there's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Beautiful, Sports, Father, Understanding Yourself, Our Time Together

Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus, the village elders had instituted their own methods for controlling the virus, according to their received wisdom, which was to cut their villages off from the world, to protect their people from a raging plague. It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear. (94)

- Richard Preston

topic: Cutting, Practice, People, Quarantine, Smallpox