"I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly."
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"Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost."
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"Great people plant trees they'll never sit under."
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"Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree."
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"Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny."
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"Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day."
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"Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually."
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"A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms."
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"When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers."
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"The night you gave me my birthday party... you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a radiant night, a night of soft conspiracy and the trees agreed that it was all going to be for the best."
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"Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree."
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"Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at."
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"Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree."
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"To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another."
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"Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern."
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"Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky."
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"Many a family tree needs trimming"
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"The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees."
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"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."
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"Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows."
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