Oaks Quotes - Page 11

• See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.

  Philip James Bailey

  Sunshine, Gold, Beard

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.146

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• Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible.

  Mary Oliver

  Talking, Tree, Black

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• Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.

  Samuel Rogers

  Twilight, Games, Play

  Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.63

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• The mistletoe hung in the castle hall,
  The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Christmas, Wall, Hollies

  "The Mistletoe Bough". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

  Charles Churchill

  Woods, Flood, Command

  Charles Churchill, Robert Southey (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.90

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• Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!

  John Clare

  Lonely, Memories, Fate

  John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.700, Delphi Classics

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• At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Distance, Perspective, Ordinary

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• I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all I had ever before beheld. They are broad and dense and bright green. In the leafy bowers and caves of their long branches dwell magnificent avenues of shade, and every tree seems to be blessed with a double portion of strong exulting life.

  John Muir

  Strong, Blessed, Kentucky

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.14, e-artnow

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• What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Tree, Hemlock

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• No-one wants acorns, but everyone wants oaks.

  Steve Fowler

  Want, Acorns

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• Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial.

  William Morley Punshon

  Real, Rocks, Self

  William Morley Punshon (1882). “Lectures”

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• Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

  Bill Vaughan

  Patience, Strong, Looks

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• Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.

  Alexander Pope

  Rose, Amber, Liquid

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1851). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.31

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• What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far on Earth belongs to the same tree. We share genes with mushrooms and oak trees and fish and bacteria that live in volcanic vents and so on that it's all the same life descended from a common origin. What we want is a second tree of life. We want alien life, alien not necessarily in the sense of having come from space, but alien in the sense of belonging to a different tree altogether. That is what we're looking for, "life 2.0."

  Paul Davies

  Mushrooms, Space, Tree

  Source: bigthink.com

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• All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.

  Coventry Patmore

  Love, Sunshine, Men

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• An oak is no respecter of persons.

  Aldo Leopold

  Persons

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.33, Oxford University Press

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• Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart

  Sappho

  Love, Heart, Warning

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.46, Univ of California Press

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• Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are right, it naturally emerges.

  Derek Rydall

  Destiny, Self, Tree

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• Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Letting Go, Men, Stills

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

  Alexander Pope

  Mother, Weed, Men

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.355, Delphi Classics

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• Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.

  Sappho

  Heart, Mountain, Uprooting

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• Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Writing, One Direction

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• At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

  Alain Ducasse

  Home, Tree, Backyards

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• Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.

  George R. R. Martin

  Moving, Men, Past

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3526, Bantam

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• For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be.
  Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea.
  O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree
  They're all growing green in the old countrie.

  William Ernest Henley

  Home, Sea, Tree

  William Ernest Henley (2015). “A Selection of Poems”, p.141, Read Books Ltd

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