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"He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."
"Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal."
"Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split."
"They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter."
"I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me - and I didn't hear it."
"Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees."
"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."
"If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!"
"The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower."
"Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors."
"And the tree was happy"
""Well? Is it true? Did she?" "Did she what?" "You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?""
"I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me."
"Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one."
"Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so."
"Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths."
"I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated)."
"Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush."
"This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down."
"One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree."
