Sylvia Townsend Warner - Tree Quotes

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We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree.... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

He looks at trees with an astonishing degree of love and trust and penetration; almost as though he were exiled from being a tree himself.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

Sylvia Townsend Warner