3 Quotes by Hilary Scharper

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity...and some scare see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.—William Blake (1757-1827)

To be sure, she is quick and sharp, and she sees things before they do, and that is why men do not like her, because it is not they who have shown her what to think.

And then, because I did not move and waited with no expectation, I heard the whole forest sigh. It was such a beautiful sound – the wind moving from one end to the other and all the trees stirring as it moved past them so that, all together, they emitted a long, soft, fragrant breath. My eyes filled with tears, for I felt that somehow my pines at home were there with me in that gentle sigh, and that these trees were friends.