Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
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When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree.
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal.
If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
He plants trees to benefit another generation.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.