"Feathered with hoarfrost, skeletal trees loom closer; fog shrouded arches."
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"That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment."
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"Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city."
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"What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?"
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"Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris."
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"But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees."
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"The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”"
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"At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death."
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"Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy."
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"Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin."
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"But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight which none but those who have experienced it can understand."
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"Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has."
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"We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries."
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"So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down."
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"Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree."
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"It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants."
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"Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches."
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"As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways"
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"You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it."
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"I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye; And I reach to the shore of the sea With my ear. Nevertheless, I dislike The way the ants crawl In and out of my shadow."
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