Quotes About Heartwood

#1. It took two," I said. "Two different people to make the Heartwood what it is. Two different experiences, grief and joy, combined. True love never has just one face, does it? It must always have two, or it isn't true love at all.

Cameron Dokey

#2. The friends had been whittled down. The ones who remained were heartwood, marrow. I

Lauren Groff

#3. A tree is a vast thing full of heavy mass. But that mass is mostly inert. The real life of the tree happens in three very thin layers - the phloem, xylem, and cambium. These thin layers are just beneath the bark and they are the envelope of life around the heartwood at the center of the tree.

Ned Hayes

#4. I would almost forget about Ida Durbin. But a sin of omission, if indeed that's what it was, can be like the rusty head of a hatchet buried in the heartwood of a tree
it eventually finds the teeth of a whirling saw blade.

James Lee Burke

#5. What kind of trees are those?" I asked.
"Heartwood," my father said. "They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you.

James Lee Burke

#6. The seeds of a redwood are released from cones that are about the size of olives. The heartwood of the tree is a dark, shimmery red in color, like old claret. The wood has a lemony scent and is extremely resistant to rot.

Richard Preston

#7. A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood and bark. It stands waiting for light, which it catches in the close-woven sieves of its leaves.

Alice Oswald

#8. Atticus is a gentleman, just like me!

Harper Lee

#9. Some people live in a bitter, angry, hate-filled world.
Some people living in a friendly, caring, love-filled world.
Same world ...

Jose N. Harris

#10. And the figure of the income he had arrived at had never been high enough to look any one in the face.

Henry James

#11. remodeled glider to Kill Devil Hills to resume testing.

David McCullough

#12. Duck love is recognizable in any language.

Edmond Manning

#13. I'd spent so much time thinking about the future and about becoming someone I could never be that I'd simply missed the point: I was alive. Now. This very moment. And that's all there was.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#14. Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#15. Why is it that when a baby is born, we often refer to him or her as 'the miracle of life' but then we accept mediocrity for our own lives? Where along the way did we lose sight of the miracle that WE are?

Hal Elrod

#16. For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.

Timothy Noah

#17. The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.

Susan Powter

#18. People think that saving the planet or finding their place in that effort is a really overwhelming thought.

Nikki Reed