Sprout Lands Quotes

“By model and reiteration – by patterns of branching – every woody plant rises into the body of the light.”
― William Bryant Logan, Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees

“This is what the sprouts teach: immortality is not a matter of holding on, but of letting go.”
― William Bryant Logan, Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees

“assertion of Jesus that he was the vine through whom the branches lived.”
― William Bryant Logan, Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees

“every civilization reaches a still point. The progressives can’t go forward, and the conservatives can’t go back. One demands continual advance, the other longs for yesterday.”
― William Bryant Logan, Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees

“The way we treat the land is the way we treat each other, and the ways of humans to each other are as ecologically important as a water table.”
― William Bryant Logan, Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees

“We would be better to focus more on acts and less on looks. Hedging puts us into the landscape intimately. It makes us pay attention. When we pay attention, we are repaid in many ways.”
― William Bryant Logan, Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees

“I began to trust in the power of sprouting, and the more I learned, the more I came to believe that trees are more perceptive, more intelligent, more generous, and more persistent than we are.”
― William Bryant Logan, Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees