“ 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. ”
- Wilfred A. Peterson- Copy
- 483
“ Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
- 572
“ The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree. ”
- Bob Goodlatte- Copy
- 649
“ 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- Copy
- 3.6K
“ When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 1.9K
“ If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
- 3K
“ The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. ”
- Charles Churchill- Copy
- 756
“ The oaks with solemnity shook their heads; The twigs of the birch-trees, in token Of warning, nodded, — and I exclaim'd: "Dear Monarch, forgive what I've spoken! ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
- 21
“ Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir. ”
- John Keats- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees. Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state; and in three more decays. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 204
“ The tall Oak, towering to the skies, The fury of the wind defies, From age to age, in virtue strong. Inured to stand, and suffer wrong. ”
- James Montgomery- Copy
- 1.9K
“ In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
- 3.1K
“ And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all blades of grass; And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own living. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
- 3.1K
“ When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 1.6K
“ A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird? ”
- Edward Hersey Richards- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. ”
- Alice Mackenzie Swaim- Copy
- 187
“ Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 604
“ Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion? ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 65
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