Quotes About Stumps

Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees and stumps, and generally appearing throughout the late fall and winter months.

The lake is lovely, I commented, And so big. I still find it hard to believe it's artificial. Oh, it's artificial, all right. Dive deep and you may bash your head on tree stumps.

First came the stumps of the houses that had once contained the dreams of pioneers

Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.

She laughed. "What about your wings?" she said. "How can you forget those when the stumps are still deep in your shoulder-blades?" I didn't say anything. In the Bible only the angels have wings; the rest of us have to wait to be rescued.

Horrific as it was, the present dark, I was afraid to leave it for the other, permanent dark – jelly and bloat, the muddy pit. I had seen the shadow of it on Bunny's face – stupid terror; the whole world opening upside down; his life exploding in a thunder of crows and the sky expanding empty over his stomach like a white ocean. Then nothing. Rotten stumps, sowbugs crawling in the fallen leaves. Dirt and dark.