Quotes About Sycamore

The sycamore trees that surround our house sway as the wind pushes in an oncoming storm now gathering off the coast.

On a sandbar sunlight stretches out its limbs, or is it a sycamore, so brazen, so clean and bold?

It was one of those golden autumn afternoons and there were blackberries and splashes of old man's beard in the hedges, and the hawthorn berries were ripening scarlet for the birds when the cold winter came along. There were tall trees here and there on either side, oak and sycamore and ash and occasionally a sweet chestnut.

To really touch something, she is learning—the bark of a sycamore tree in the gardens; a pinned stag beetle in the Department of Etymology; the exquisitely polished interior of a scallop shell in Dr. Geffard's workshop—is to love it.

Mazes in the nodules on murex shells and in the textures of sycamore bark and inside the hollow bones of eagles. None more complicated than the human brain

To really touch something, she is learning—the bark of a sycamore tree in the gardens; a pinned stag beetle in the Department of Entomology; the exquisitely polished interior of a scallop shell in Dr. Geffard's workshop—is to love it.

If we eliminate the pressure to pass, what delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation might we create?

Stars shining bright above you Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you" Birds singing in the sycamore tree Dream a little dream of me

For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery white bark like a woman's body against the uncanny blue sky.

You are a poet, sycamore, A minor poet. You are not much good in a practical world; You shed your ragged leaves early, and clutter up the landscape. But you are lovely on winter evenings Against the afterglow-- Bare and pale and a little disdainful, But yourself.

It has often been remarked of the Scottish character, that the stubbornness with which it is moulded shows most to advantage in adversity, when it seems akin to the native sycamore of their hills, which scorns to be biassed in its mode of growth even by the influence of the prevailing wind, but, shooting its branches with equal boldness in every direction, shows no weather-side to the storm, and may be broken, but can never be bended.

For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery white bark like a woman's body against the uncanny blue sky.

The children set out for school, no books in their packs, a sycamore they have ignored all summer aflame like the gilted-edged pages of a Bible magnified under glass.

From the gravel road, they all strained to see the old sycamore, but after a few seconds of focusing it was apparent there was a man hanging from it. Calvin told them everything he knew. The deputies decided it was best to proceed as if a crime had been committed, and they prohibited the ambulance crew from approaching the scene.

He was definitely part of the gang, but he didn't want to get his hands dirty. There were four trucks, and they drove slowly away from the settlement, not far, to a row of sycamore trees. Seth and I knew the place well because we had fished in the creek.

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.

The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.