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"The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place."
"If you remove a treehouse from a tree, than it's just a shitty house. Sometimes when i'm in a shitty house, I like to imagine that it's in a tree, than it's like Woah, this house is amazing."
"The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing."
"What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?"
"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."
"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves."
"Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent."
"A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?"
"There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest."
"To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world."
"Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love."
"The best friend of earth of man is the tree."
"Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree"
"The spine is the tree of life. Respect it."
"Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree."
"A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then."
"He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree."
"Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living."
"The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky."
"The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable."
