Oaks

Just as the same illustrious man's essays are good hints -- useful topics -- for essays; but no approximation to what we, in modern days, understand by _essays_: they are, as an eminent author once happily expressed it to myself, '_seeds, not plants or shrubs; acorns, that is, oaks in embryo, but not oaks_.' ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

Perhaps in "oaks" there is reference to their idolatry (Isa 1: 29). ❋ Unknown (1871)

Egrets perch in oaks, cormorants dive into the green water, mallards pass overhead and we hear of the recent sighting of an osprey. ❋ Virginia Spiers (2010)

Midnight BanjoWalking through an open bottom one day, nothing but huge, no limb for 20 feet, pin oaks every 30 or 40 feet apart. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Any beaver pond bordered by mature acorn-bearing oaks is sure to attract wood ducks, regardless of aquatic vegetation. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But that one morning, still blue dark where pin oaks and acacia trees that ran the fenceline just beyond my window were the home of many birds, mourning doves and tanagers, cardinals and mockingbirds -- ❋ Maggie Jochild (2005)

These opportunists established the security from rival sects that was necessary for creating the "oaks" -- provincial governments and a provincial "national guard" to maintain order. ❋ Unknown (2008)

• Careful measurements of the oxygen isotope ratios in German oaks, which are rigorously calibrated to temperature data, show a 1°C temperature decline from 1350 to 1800 the lowpoint of the Little Ice Age. ❋ Unknown (2006)

High above, the bud-burst of the oaks has been a starting pistol for insects. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor." ❋ Cheryl R. Cox (2009)

They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor. ❋ Happy (2008)

They will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, to display his glory. ❋ Merry Graham Rachel Bye (2005)

It would have been a great privilege to be the mistress of an old time-honoured mansion, to call oaks and elms her own, to know that acres of gardens were submitted to her caprices, to look at herds of cows and oxen, and be aware that they lowed on her own pastures. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The path northward through the oaks was a slender one, winding and climbing. ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (2000)

The hospital was a gray stone building set back in Spanish oaks on the bayou, and purple wisteria grew on the trellises above the walkways and the lawn was filled with yellow and red hibiscus and flaming azalea. ❋ James Lee Burke (1988)