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Karle Wilson Baker Quotes

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

Karle Wilson Baker
Nature, Earth Day, Tree
Karle Wilson Baker, Sarah Ragland Jackson, Charlotte Baker Montgomery (2006). “The Birds of Tanglewood”, p.42, Texas A&M University Press

I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.

Karle Wilson Baker
Secret, Sorrow, Friendly
Karle Wilson Baker (1931). “Dreamers on Horseback: (collected Verse)”

Some days my thoughts are just cocoons -- all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey woods of my mind; And other days they drift and shine -- such free and flying things! I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings.

Karle Wilson Baker
Hair, Dust, Wings
Karle Wilson Baker (1931). “Dreamers on Horseback: (collected Verse)”

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