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"The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls."
"He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch."
"I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me"
"All religions are branches of one big tree."
"My featherbed is deep and soft, and there I’ll lay you down, I’ll dress you all in yellow silk and on your head a crown. For you shall be my lady love, and I shall be your lord. I’ll always keep you warm and safe, and guard you with my sword. And how she smiled and how she laughed, the maiden of the tree. She spun away and said to him, no featherbed for me. I’ll wear a gown of golden leaves, and bind my hair with grass, But you can be my forest love, and me your forest lass."
"Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree."
"On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!"
"It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all."
"In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity."
"The tree does not die, it waits."
"I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being."
"If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other."
"In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees"
"In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled and examined the pink-skinned baby birds, he popped one of them into his mouth like a jujube. It seemed to please him a lot. He offered a baby bird to me, pantomiming that I should eat it. I understood perfectly well what he meant, but I refused. He did not seem disappointed to have to eat the whole brood himself."
"Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered together! It is like an old tree with shoots, And with some branches rotted and falling."
"This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff."
"I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?"
"I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree."
"He splayed a hand out over the photographs, trembling fingers not quite touching the shiny surface, and then he turned and leaned toward me, slowly, with the improbable grace of a tall tree falling. He buried his face in my shoulder and went very quietly and thoroughly to pieces."
"A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing."
