Taller Than The Trees Quotes

#1. I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. The trees are a thousand times taller than me, and hundreds of years older, and the rocks and leaves and plants and animals never do anything silly like kill each other or fall in love or grow up.

Ben Stephenson

#3. Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.

Willa Cather

#4. Find the light. Reach for it. Live for it. Pull yourself up by it. Gratitude always makes for straighter, taller trees.

Al R. Young

#5. Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

Karle Wilson Baker

#6. So this is how they lived. For some time Theo, like a tree living in the shadow of taller trees, found a way to live off reflected light.

Dave Eggers

#7. Before him, numberless lovers smiled and talked. And death was observed with sudden cries, And birth with laughter and pain. And the trees grew taller and blacker against the skies And night came down again.

Conrad Aiken

#8. The thorns thinned out and the trees grew taller and straighter, their branches not beginning until a few feet over our heads. The white, peeled bark of the birches looked buttery in the long, slanting afternoon light, and their leaves were a delicate gold.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?
(Answer: a mountain)

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move through the green depths of the canopy, like schools of fish.

Richard Preston