Oaks Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Memories, Flower, Mean

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.90, Penguin

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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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• 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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• The oak has not the efficacy of the fir, nor the cypress that of the elm.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Cypresses, Efficacy

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter IX, Section 5,

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• Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side
  Is now the fitting place for thee:
  When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride,
  The youthful tendril yet may hide,
  The ruins of the parent tree.

  Walter Scott

  Daughter, Pride, Men

  Walter Scott (2016). “Woodstock, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.24”, p.44, VM eBooks

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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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• Some 30 years later I found myself back here again [in Vietnam] on what was to be a short visit that lasted months, and since then I've been living my life with one foot in Ho Chi Minh City and the other in Fair Oaks, California.

  Doug Rice

  Years, Cities, California

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.

  Marianne Williamson

  Baby, Moving, Reality

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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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• The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.

  Mary Carolyn Davies

  Talking, Tree, Ancient

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• The aged oak upon the steep stands more firm and secure if assailed by angry winds; for if the winter bares its head, the more strongly it strikes its roots into the ground, acquiring strength as it loses beauty.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Winter, Roots, Wind

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• There is no land like England,
  Where'er the light of day be;
  There are no hearts like English hearts,
  Such hearts of oak as they be;
  There is no land like England,
  Where'er the light of day be:
  There are no men like Englishmen,
  So tall and bold as they be!
  And these will strike for England,
  And man and maid be free
  To foil and spoil the tyrant
  Beneath the greenwood tree.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Men, Light

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• Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

  Thomas Browne

  Years, Stones, Lasts

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.43

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• Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.

  William Congreve

  Music, Rocks, Numbers

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.237

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• How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

  Voltaire

  Dad, Children, Father

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

  Sappho

  Heart, Mountain, Uprooting

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• The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within the memory of man! As if individual speculators were to be allowed to export the clouds out of the sky, or the stars out of the firmament, one by one. We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Memories, Cutting

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.158

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• Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries.

  William George Jordan

  Philosophy, Night, Mushrooms

  William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.12, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by," Kerouac wrote. "Trails are like that: you're floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and fluteboys, then suddenly you're struggling in a hot broiling sun of hell in dust and nettles and poison oak... just like life.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Fall, Struggle

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• 'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Done, Stones

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

  Wendell Phillips

  Past, Growth, Foundation

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.36

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