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"The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?"
"What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil."
"Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives."
"On the gallows tree, all men are brothers."
"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."
"We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us."
"Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O."
"The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil."
"I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known."
"There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees."
"I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them."
"Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned."
"I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night."
"Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together."
"We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it."
"If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?"
"I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young."
"I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man."
"The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things."
"When a man plants a tree, he plants himself."
