Oak Sayings
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acornes are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Anon
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
George Herbert
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The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.
Emerson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Emerson
In creating, the only hard thing’s to begin;
A grass blades’s no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell Lowell 1819-1891 A Fable For Critics 1848
There was an old owl lived in an oak,
The more he heard, the less he spoke;
The less he spoke, the more he heard,
O, if men were all like that wise bird!
LXVIII, 155 (1875) Punch
Parvis e glandibus quercus
Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
Anon.
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