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"The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good. What the individual can do is give a fine example, and have the courage to firmly uphold ethical convictions in a society of cynics. I have for a long time tried to conduct myself this way, with varying success."
"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."
"Today I stood taller from walking among the trees."
"The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn’t good enough. She was seventeen, and every male she’d ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The one time it really mattered, she wasn’t good enough."
"The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars."
"Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom."
"What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy"
"My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African."
"But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf."
"If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country."
"That's what I love about being mayor. Even if the problem is getting the cat out of the tree - from that to the biggest problem, you're in charge. No ambiguity. Leaders lead."
"Compared with me, a tree is immortal."
"Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves."
"A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows."
"Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back."
"Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha."
"Big? Sure. But, he can't catch mice! So for your big tree. No use? Then plant it in the wasteland - in emptiness. Walk idly around it and rest under it's shadow. No axe or saw prepares its end. No one will ever cut it down. Useless? You should worry!."
"Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!"
"I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning."
"If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are."
