Elm Tree Quotes

#1. A sheet of white extends to the lone dark vertical of the elm tree in the centre ... It is too perfect, to inviolate ... The snow is graced with waves written by the wind, the elm raises crooked arms in sleeves of white.

Haruki Murakami

#2. And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

James Russell Lowell

#3. Everyday, Jay would sit under a giant elm tree and imagine the adventures his life might bring.

Ilchi Lee

#4. I felt and saw the night outside deep within me. Wind and wetness, autumn, bitter smell of foliage, scattered leaves of the elm tree.

Hermann Hesse

#5. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said
yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

Willie Morris

#6. Where has he gone, my meadow mouse,
My thumb of a child that nuzzled in my palm?
To run under the hawk's wing,
Under the eye of the great owl watching from the elm-tree,
To live by courtesy of the shrike, the snake, the tom-cat.
(from "The Meadow Mouse")

Theodore Roethke

#7. I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.

William Boyd

#8. It is a catalyst for suicide and untold other acts of selfishness and stupidity. I cannot think of a more poisonous emotion.

Kevin Hearne

#9. The colonists' first protest against the British unfolded on Aug. 14, 1765 at the Liberty Tree. A magnificent elm towering over the other trees nearby, the Liberty Tree stood at the corner of what is now Washington and Essex Streets in downtown Boston.

Ronald Kessler

#10. Bergulme. Elsbeere. Hagebuche. Efeu. Scots elm. Service tree. Hornbeam.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#11. For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.

John Burroughs

#12. You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Publilius Syrus

#13. I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Elizabeth Taylor

#14. Models of style: the swearword, the telegram, the epitaph.

Cioran

#15. Only God can thwart the plans of Satan and his legions.

Billy Graham

#16. John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark.

Tim Fulford