No.74

“I'm such a fan of nature, and being with the trees every day fills me with joy.” 

― Scott Blum

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No.73

“A row of trees far away, there on the hillside.

But what is it, a row of trees? It’s just trees.

Row and the plural trees aren’t things, they’re names.” 

― Alberto Caeiro

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No.72

"Careless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 

'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms: 

Where light-heel'd ghosts and visionary shades, 

Beneath the wan, cold Moon (as Fame reports) 

Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds 

No other merriment, dull tree! is thine."

- Robert Blair (commenting on the Yew tree)

This is a part of the churchyard of St.Mary's, Painswick showing some of the famous yew trees. According to the legend, there are 99 yews there and the Devil has decreed that, if ever a 100th was planted, he would destroy it. In the year 2000 one was added to mark the millennium and it has survived.

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No.71

“She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.” 

― Lynn Kurland

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No.70

“Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures.” 

― Vera Nazarian

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No.69

"I think that I shall never see a Poem lovely as a Tree"

- Alfred Joyce Kilmer

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No.68

“Trees are always a relief, after people.” 

― David Mitchell

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