The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree.

- Bob Goodlatte

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

- James Russell Lowell

You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.

- Jim Crace

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.

- John Motson

So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

The memories that I have are mostly at our old ranch, out in Agoura. We used to go out there every Saturday. I can smell the oak trees. I can see it so clearly.

- Patti Davis