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Martin Buber Philosopher

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"But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the tree ceases to be an It. . . . Does the tree then have consciousness, similar to our own? I have no experience of that. But thinking that you have brought this off in your own case, must you again divide the indivisible? What I encounter is neither the soul of a tree nor a dryad, but the tree itself."

Thinking Grace Tree

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Martin Luther Theologian

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"When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree.""

Peace Tree Ubuntu

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Mary Oliver Poet

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"Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible."

Talking Black Tree

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist

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"No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots."

Earth Tree Roots

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Miguel Angel Ruiz Author, Spiritual Teacher

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"What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss."

Light Tree Sky

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Ming-Dao Deng Author

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"Did you measure to attain your height? Did you use geometry to radiate your limb? Did you lament storm-torn branches? Did you inventory your leaves for the sun? You did none of these things, yet man in his cleverness Cannot match your perfection."

Men Tree Perfection

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Ming-Dao Deng Author

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"An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest."

Tree Squares Taoism

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist

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"In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee"

Tree Bird Sympathy

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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet

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"A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree."

Tree Broken Childhood

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist

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"The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again."

Song Moments Tree

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Ellen DeGeneres Comedian, Television Host

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"The only way a no-legged leopard could hurt you is if it fell out of a tree onto your head."

Hurt Tree Leopards

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer

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"A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people."

People Tree Down And

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Dar Williams Singer-songwriter

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"But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State."

Tree States Washington State

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

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"Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts."

Men Tree Lightning

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Aesop Fabulist

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"The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'"

Tree Dust Wheels

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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker

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"Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?"

Air Tree Rivers

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Charles Dickens Novelist

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"There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands."

Light Tree Moon

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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet

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"When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun."

Tree Bigs Sun

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Bertolt Brecht Playwright, Poet

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"The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?"

Tree Storm Violent

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer

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"We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree."

World Tree This World

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