"my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world."
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"I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me."
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"It boggles my mind that someone can see life breathed into a baby, watch the grass die and then come to life again, see leaves fall and watch the rebirth of a tree, or gaze on any of the majestic splendor that is this earth and not be overpowered by the presence of an Almighty God!"
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"When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us."
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"If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect."
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"A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock."
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"In trees, I see expression and soul"
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"There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not. But, as I put down my glass I remember; I am engaged to be married. I am to dine with my friends tonight. I am Bernard."
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"To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees."
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"The hardest shot in golf is a mashie at 90 yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against an oak tree, bounces back into a sandtrap, hits a stone, bounces on the green and then rolls into the cup. That shot is so difficult I have made it only once."
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"I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons. Yet, my gentlehobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees."
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"If you look close ... you can see that the wild critters have 'No Trespassing' signs tacked up on every pine tree."
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"There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces."
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"Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota."
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"But the power of God cannot be so determined and measured, for it is uncircumscribed and immeasurable, beyond and above all that is or may be. On the other hand, it must be essentially present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf."
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"According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not born in the royal palace but in a park, under a sala tree. He attained complete enlightenment under the bodhi tree and left this earth to enter Parinirvana, again, between three sala trees. It would seem that the Buddha was very fond of trees."
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"When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness."
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"Memory is not like a container that gradually fills up, it is more like a tree growing hooks onto which memories are hung. Everything you remember is another set of hooks on which more new memories can be attached. So the capacity of memory keeps on growing. The more you know, the more you can know."
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"And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?"
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"Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees."
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