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R.H. STODDARD: _Under the Trees._
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Summer or winter, day or night, The woods are an ever-new delight; They give us peace, and they make us strong, Such wonderful balms to them belong: So, living or dying, I'll take mine ease Under the trees, under the trees.
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John Muir
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We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much.
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John Muir
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We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so muc
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Hal Borland
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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J. J. Fumas
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Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
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Arab Proverb
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It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees.
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Jerry Coleman
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Sometimes, big trees grow out of acorns. I think I heard that from a squirrel.
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WORDSWORTH: _Sonnet composed at ---- Castle._
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A brotherhood of venerable trees.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The trees reflected in the river -- they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Thornton
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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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Greek Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
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Bill Vaughan
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Nelson Henderson
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
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Steven Wright
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Trees that grow in smoggy cities are needed to make carbonpaper.
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Thornton Wilder
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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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Martin Luther
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God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars.
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e. e. cummings
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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Gary McCord
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He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it.
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MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 75.
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Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees.
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LEIGH HUNT: _Politics and Poetics._
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Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
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SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.
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Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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Anton Chekhov
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. vi., Line 181.
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Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,-- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground.
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BUTLER: _Sat. on Abuse of Human Learning,_ Line 211.
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The lives of trees lie only in the barks, And in their styles the wit of greatest clerks.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
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D. Elton Trueblood
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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WALLER: _To Zelinda._
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The sap which at the root is bred In trees, through all the boughs is spread; But virtues which in parents shine Make not like progress through the line.
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ROBERT BROWNING: _Pauline,_ Line 726.
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Trees can smile in light at the sinking sun Just as the storm comes, as a girl would look On a departing lover--most serene.
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Kevin Starr
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A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.
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SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act iv., Sc. 14.
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A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't.
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John Muir
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
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Alice Walker
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
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Alice Walker
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto the plains, where some were probably hit by cars.
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William Shakespeare
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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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William Manchester
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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
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Wendell Berry
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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Sir John Lubbock
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
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WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _The Unknown Way._
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A silvery brook comes stealing From the shadow of its trees, Where slender herbs of the forest stoop Before the entering breeze.
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WILLIAM COLLEN BRYANT: _A Winter Piece._
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Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice, While the slant sun of February pours Into the bowers a flood of light.
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Walt Whitman
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You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.
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J. Willard Marriott
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Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
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Sir Winston Churchill
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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American Indian Proverb
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Walk tall as the trees,
live strong as the mountains,
be gentle as the spring winds,
keep the warmth of the summer sun
in your heart, and the great spirit
will always be with you.
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Andre Segovia
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The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
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Edgar Lee Masters
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Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.
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Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.
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Trees hit cars only in self-defence.
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He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
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He that plants trees loves others beside himself.
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Let us cross the river, and rest under the trees.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Outlaw junk mail, and save the trees!
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Storms make trees take deeper roots.
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"When trees blow back and forth thats what causes the winSLMRTAGLI
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"Summer in the trees! 'It is time to strangle several bad poets.
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"Summer in the trees! 'It is time to strangle several bad poets
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Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
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Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
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Don't buy furs, it takes trees to make protest signs.
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A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.
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Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.
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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
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Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
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Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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"I'll stop those trees with my streams of high presure Musalage!"
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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"I chop down trees, I wear high heels, suspenders and a bra."
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"Pomona" - Goddess of Fruit Trees, Mother of Apples.
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Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
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"When trees blow back and forth, that's what causes the wind." -Wright
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"It's MONEY, Holly. It grows on trees." - Catwoman
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"and put those pine trees back where you found them!" - Fran
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"There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees!" - Floyd
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"Sitting under apple trees causes headaches." -- Newton's Law
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"Let's go across the river and rest 'neath the shade of the trees."
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"Apples don't grow on trees, you know." -- Frank Burns
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engr
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"Please save the branches of our trees," said Tom limply.
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"Episode 12B: How to recognise different types of trees.."
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"In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees"
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"In Bavaria, where the trees are made of wood!"
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"Never seen so many trees in my life." -- Agent Cooper
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"I chop down trees for a living," said Tom lumberingly.
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"When trees blow back and forth thats what causes the wind..." - s.w.
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"..wild duodenum are lurking in the trees..."
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Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this - when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters - when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter to
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"Look at those pine trees!" McCoy
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"And the trees are all kept equal"
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"Dad, what makes wind?" - Calvin "Trees sneezing" - Dad
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