Tree Bark Quotes

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use.

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.

To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.