We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall, The elm tear up at the root and topple like a crown, The pine crack at the base - we had to watch them all. The ash, the lovely cedar. We had to watch them fall. They went so softly under the loud flails of air, Before that fury they went down like feathers, With all the hundred springs that flowered in their hair, and all the years, endured in all the weathers - To fall as if they were nothing, as if they were feathers.
Quotes about elm (16 Quotes)
The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sunand a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leaftytongues a-whispering all at once. This ages tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale. It has kept its boughs unshattered, and its full complement of leaves, and the whole in perfect verdure, except a single branch, that, by the earlier change with which the elm-tree sometimes prophesies the autumn, had been transmuted to bright gold.
Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate.
It's a neat community. I'm excited about the growth that's occurring in Little Elm.
Under the shady roof Of branching elm star-proof.
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. - Maxims
It is something to make two blades of grass grow where only one was growing, it is much more to have been the occasion of the planting of an oak which shall defy twenty scores of winters, or of an elm which shall canopy with its green cloud of foliage half as many generations of mortal immortalities.
Consider the many special delights a lawn affords soft mattress for a creeping baby worm hatchery for a robin croquet or badminton court baseball diamond restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge green shadows - 'This lawn, a carpet all alive With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet.
These trees are still alive. But the Dutch elm disease spreads so quickly. To prevent it from spreading to other trees, they have to be removed.
There's a possibility it'll have the same impact or more that Dutch elm disease had on the elms. When it comes, it's a real crusher.
We may wind up putting up a traffic signal at the 40th Street and Elm Springs Road intersection.
New feet within my garden go --
New fingers stir the sod --
A Troubadour upon the Elm
Betrays the solitude.
We've always been into horror movies. The Nightmare on Elm Street films, I've seen a million times. We watch a wide variety of horror movies. Travis just has a huge folder of them on the bus.
We would like to extend our appreciation to the cooperating landowners and the agencies that have provided additional funding to make this project a success so far, ... We are also looking for landowners who are interested in funding for projects to repair the shoreline of Elm Lake itself, or its many tributaries that may have been damaged by heavy rains in May and June.
We lived in Little Elm many years ago, from 1963 to 1975, and I continue to reside close to Little Elm with my brother John. We have a lot of old friends here, and they call me on a daily basis. It hurts my heart to tell them that I really don't know anything else.
I who kept the greenhouse,
Lover of trees and flowers,
Oft in life saw this umbrageous elm,
Measuring its generous branches with my eye,
And listened to its rejoicing leaves
Lovingly patting each other
With sweet aeolian whispers.