I am not bound for any public place but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

I knew of course that trees and plants had roots stems bark branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Knowing trees I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass I can appreciate persistence.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Rest is not idleness and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day listening to the murmur of the water or watching the clouds float across the sky is by no means a waste of time.

Solitary trees if they grow at all grow strong.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean and the instruments are little or bigger islands very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

We were raised without movies theater or music. We had only nature the hills the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon ' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.