Fallen Tree Sayings

#1. I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!

Louis Leakey

#2. Towering pines and hemlocks, was it? I thought, clambering over the burled knots of a fallen tree. The monstrous trunks rose so high that the lowest limbs started twenty feet above my head. Longfellow had no idea.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. Shadow looked at the corpse of the baby deer. He decided that if he were a real woodsman, he would slice off a steak and grill it over a wood fire. Instead, he sat on a fallen tree and ate a Snickers bar and knew that he really wasn't a real woodsman.

Neil Gaiman

#4. Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint wonders with his dark voice. Wonders and horrors both.

R. Scott Bakker

#5. From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

Barbara Kingsolver

#6. He reached out, put his hands on her shoulders and pressed downwards. She fell into a seated position against a fallen tree.
"Sit," he said. "Stay."
"That's cute," she said. "Tell me to 'heel' and see what happens.

Jena Leigh

#7. He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom - a broom that would have fired the imagination of Rachel the Dragon toward heroic, legendary feats of sweeping.

Tad Williams

#8. To witness a fallen tree, but hear no sound......creates an illusion of its importance.

R.W. Erskine

#9. I know what you're thinking.Girlfriend has fallen out of the stoopid tree and bonked her head against every branch on the way down.

Jennifer Echols

#10. But what is done is done. Who can make the dead tree green, or gaze again upon last year's light? Who can recall the spoken word, or bring back the spirit of the fallen? That which Time swallows comes not up again. Let it be forgotten!

H. Rider Haggard

#11. Only when the last leaf has fallen, the last tree has died, and the last fish been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money.

E.L. James

#12. We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

Louis De Bernieres

#13. This leaf has fallen from its mother and withered. Yet the tree does not mourn the loss. While barren, it stands tall, ready to bear the burden of winter, for it knows that through hardship comes renewal.

D.J. Niko

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

Tim Fulford

#15. You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.

Wilhelm II

#16. They found a thick tree that had fallen, the tangled roots exposed. They saw the drenched ground that had given way. The tree seemed more overwhelming when it lay on the ground. Its proportions frightening, once it no longer lived.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#17. Fallen flowers can't climb back.
If the root is strong, we can expect new flowers. Don't think too much about the 'lost' past.
Just love the present & live for the future.
From the tree, I learn, Make your roots strong. There will never be shortage of flowers

Unknown

#18. Today here and now, at the age of four, we eat from the tree of knowledge and have fallen from grace.

Osho

#19. He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.

Lee Child

#20. The apple had fallen right next to the crazy tree.

Ernest Cline

#21. We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

Sylvia Pankhurst

#22. Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.

Margaret Mitchell

#23. The silence after a felled tree has fallen is like the silence immediately after a death. The same sense of culmination.

John Berger

#24. The seeds that we speed into life to be trees, will soon become fallen if thier roots aren't deep.

Mason Jennings

#25. Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

William Law

#26. She remembered sitting beneath the tree on a hot July day with someone who looked at her with a longing that took everything else away. And it had been at that moment that she'd first fallen in love.

Nicholas Sparks

#27. Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#28. When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
[When the tree is fallen, all go with their hatchet.]

George Herbert

#29. Duc?' The boy leaned against a twisted willow tree. 'Or bastard?

Becca Fitzpatrick

#30. He might as well have told she'd fallen out of the ugly tree and hit her face a few extra times on the way down.

Jessica R. Patch

#31. People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table.

Connie Willis

#32. His hands slipped from his throat, and he crashed to the ground like a tree falling.
"Oh, dear," said Pangborn, gazing at the fallen body of his comrade with fastidious distaste. "How unpleasant.

Cassandra Clare

#33. The Japanese think it strange we paint our old wooden houses when it takes so long to find the wabi in them. They prefer the bonsai tree after the valiant blossoming is over, the leaves fallen. When bareness reveals a merit born in the vegetable struggling.

Jack Gilbert

#34. I used to picture us as two leaves, blowing miles apart in the wind yet bound by the deep tangled roots of the tree from which we had both fallen.

Khaled Hosseini