"The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths."
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"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off."
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"Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches."
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"The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey."
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"BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there."
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""One impulse from a vernal wood"
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"Many of us are caught in separateness and we look for love out there, out there. But then as we proceed inside there will be the love. The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love."
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"Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze."
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"I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates."
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"Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free."
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"Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity."
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"I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown."
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"A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.... The more a tree is like itself, the more it is like Him."
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"There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie."
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"My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers."
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"Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free."
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"Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?"
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"A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place."
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"Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me."
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"The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods."
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