Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did somebody else would own the orchard."
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Pablo Neruda
Poet, Diplomat
"What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you."
Pythagoras
Philosopher, Mathematician
"We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that's why we should always be in contact with Him, as the trunk from the root. Because the stream dries up when it is separated from the spring and the tree dies when is uprooted."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick."
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"The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life."
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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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"Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center."
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"The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell."
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"Trees are worth more alive than dead"
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"I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be"
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"Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop."
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"Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people."
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"I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed."
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"Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and the leaf."
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"You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree."
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"Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this."
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"Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree."
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"Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--"
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"When a big tree falls, the ground shakes"
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"Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves."
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"Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, "You're crooked. You've always been crooked and you'll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!" said the straight tree. He said, "I'm tall and I'm straight." And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, "Cut all the straight trees." And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange."
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"If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees."
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"Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees."
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"Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away."
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