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"The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils."
"If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all."
"A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all."
"Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow."
"A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense."
"In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike."
"Trees are your best antiques"
"I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree."
"No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree."
"No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell."
"When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision."
"Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats."
"Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree."
"I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it."
"I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar."
"There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive."
"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree."
"The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful."
"Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity."
"Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails."
