"The Education of Little Tree" Quotes
A young orphaned boy of Cherokee descent learns about love, nature, and his cultural heritage while being raised by his grandparents in the Appalachian mountains during the Great Depression.
fiction | 211 pages | Published in 2001
Quotes
The words didn't seem to chatter out, the way folks jabbered them, but eased out softly, like baby birds taught to fly by being scooted off a paradise branch, in a right slow fashion.
The ancient Cherokee likened a good friend's mind to a vase of sand: the clear feelings sifted and settled down through time.
The closer they got to the hilltop, the brighter and more softly intense the wind became, carrying the messages right through them to ... the great gathering of Spirits who lived in the sky world.
You must learn to trust... You must trust the people you love, understand them, and forgive them... No matter what happens.
Out there weren't no hills, there weren't no valleys, no nothing but woods and trees and bushes all blowed apart like somebody had taken a machine gun and shot a thousand bullets, blasting the country to pieces.
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
You'll find there is no struggle in you that hadn't first been acted out in the old people, except as they have kept peace with it.
Words are strong, be careful how you use them.
There's a circle of stories, written under the table, hanging there for folks to hear if they got ears.
Some spirits are just too wild, and some are at peace all the time because they trust too much. Those they trust don't trust enough.
