Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky

Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran, Arab poet, writer

I hear the wind among the trees
Playing the celestial symphonies;

I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ameriacn poet

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
- Joyce Kilmer,
American journalist and poet

I never saw a discontented tree.
They grip the ground as though they liked it,
and though fast rooted they travel
about as far as we do.
-John Muir, American naturalist

Character is like a tree and reputation like a
shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the
real thing.
Abraham Lincoln, former US president

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.




The trees are God's great alphabet:
With them He writes in shining green
Across the world His thoughts serene.
-Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist
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