The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today. - James Carville
An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass as if trying to escape to freedom; and he buried his wife without a tombstone. Where before, she sat most times in his home, licking her wounds. - Anthony Liccione
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground. - Unknown
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.... - Unknown
An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings. - Matshona Dhliwayo
CodaPerhaps to love is to learnto walk through this world.To learn to be silentlike the oak and the linden of the fable.To learn to see.Your glance scattered seeds.It planted a tree. I talkbecause you shake its leaves. - Octavio Paz
The ancient wisdom of the masters says that even a mighty oak was once a nut like you. - Mark Brown
An acorn does not see itself as a seed, but as an oak tree. - Matshona Dhliwayo
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. - James Russell Lowell
And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. - William Shakespeare
It is so easy to forget the importance of emotional self-care. Especially when we have obvious symptoms of mental and physical illness. Emotions seem irrelevant, unrelated, invisible. But when we look at a giant oak tree, the seed that bore it is invisible too. - Vironika Tugaleva
A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up. - David McGee