Pastoral Resources

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.

The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.

The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

I was amazed at the house that I grew up in; it looks practically identical to the way it was, but I couldn't recognize it because of the size of the trees.

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.