I love The Inn
I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. Its a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river. Gail Simmons
Old Trees
Go to the adolescent
Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family– Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered together! It is like an old tree with shoots, And with some branches rotted and falling. Ezra Pound
The large white owl
The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I have never as
I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new … Read more
The old woman was
The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree. Flannery O’Connor
Storms make trees take
Storms make trees take deeper roots. Dolly Parton
My feet are like
My feet are like gnarled old tree branches. Dennis Rodman
We were supposed to
We were supposed to grow old together, Dolores. Have kids. Take walks under old trees. I wanted to watch the lines etch themselves into your flesh and know when each and every one of them appeared. Die together. Dennis Lehane
It was a though
It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family. David Abram
There are those, however,
There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When they encounter one another, when they press their foreheads against the bark of a centuries-old tree…their eyes well with tears that fall easily to the ground. The soil needs this … Read more