{"quotes":[{"text":"Again burst out that chant McKay had heard as he had floated through the mists upon the lake. Now, as then, despite his opened ears, he could distinguish no words, but clearly he understood its mingled themes - the joy of Spring's awakening, rebirth, with the green life streaming singing up through every bough, swelling the buds, burgeoning with tender leaves the branches; the dance of the trees in the scented winds of Spring; the drums of the jubilant rain on leafy hoods; passion of Summer sun pouring its golden flood down upon the trees; the moon passing with stately step and slow and green hands stretching up to her and drawing from her breast milk of silver fire; riot of wild gay winds with their mad pipings and strummings; - soft interlacing of boughs, the kiss of amorous leaves - all these and more, much more that McKay could not understand for it dealt with hidden, secret things for which man has no images.('The Women Of The Woods').","author":"Abraham Grace Merritt","tags":["bird","moon","natural","nature","pagan","spring","tree","trees"],"id":1513,"author_id":"Abraham+Grace+Merritt"},{"text":"I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.","author":"Michael Caine","tags":["autumn","the-elephant-to-hollywood","trees"],"id":1769,"author_id":"Michael+Caine"},{"text":"No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.","author":"Bill Goldberg","tags":["time","money","trees "],"id":2590,"author_id":"Bill+Goldberg"},{"text":"The coast redwood is the tallest species of tree on earth. The tallest redwoods today are between 350 and close to 380 feet in height--thirty-five to thirty-eight stories tall. The crown of a tree is its radiant array of limbs and branches, covered with leaves. The crowns of the tallest redwoods can sometimes look like the plume of exhaust from a rocket taking off.","author":"Richard Preston","tags":["science","trees"],"id":3004,"author_id":"Richard+Preston"},{"text":"Winter passed, suns and moons, and in the heat of summer each tree leaned across the stream and enmeshed its young foliage with the crown of its brother. More summers, more winters, more suns and moons, and the two had grown together, their great trunks fused, the stream parting now to flow round them.","author":"Harper Fox","tags":["love","seasons","trees","winter"],"id":3147,"author_id":"Harper+Fox"},{"text":"My parents screened 'Willy Wonka \u0026 the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.","author":"Dylan Lauren","tags":["parents","trees","candy "],"id":3533,"author_id":"Dylan+Lauren"},{"text":"Love is like encountering a forest and having to chop down every tree but one. Oh, and you have to chop down each tree by hugging it until it falls.","author":"Dark Jar Tin Zoo","tags":["forestry","funny","hug","hugging","humor","love","tree-hugger","trees"],"id":4225,"author_id":"Dark+Jar+Tin+Zoo"},{"text":"I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.","author":"Hamlin Garland","tags":["trees","remember","lovely "],"id":4365,"author_id":"Hamlin+Garland"},{"text":"The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.","author":"Said Nursi","tags":["flowers","universe","trees "],"id":6045,"author_id":"Said+Nursi"},{"text":"Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.","author":"Gina Rodriguez","tags":["trees","up","being "],"id":6642,"author_id":"Gina+Rodriguez"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":480,"pages":48,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}