"For the forest to be green, each tree must be green."
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"The Lord is in everything that's in creation. So, when you look at a tree, it's really a reflection of God. You see it in other people - that's him too, you know?"
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"Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’ Which of us was right, boss?"
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"Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge."
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"We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too."
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"And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl."
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"Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass."
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"he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did."
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"I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive."
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"Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability."
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"Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it."
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"Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life."
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"Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings."
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"The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong."
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"For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation."
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"But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself."
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"Trees in winter lose their leaves. Some trees may even fall during storms, but most stand patiently and bear their fortune."
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"You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks."
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"Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness."
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"Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures continuously since 1995 until the end of Polaroid film. I'm taking very few pictures nowadays because I have very little film left, most of it expired."
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