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"The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress."
"Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love."
"I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face - just some stuff I bought in the grocery store - I pile it through my hair."
"A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape."
"The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree."
"The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake."
"All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas."
"A tree fell on Greg Abbott - he sued and got millions."
"Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?"
"Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him."
"The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free."
"He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit."
"As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material."
"I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in letters on the little trees/ The story of my love, and as the trees/ Will grow letters too will grow, to cry/ In a louder voice the story of my love."
"The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind."
"I can't be talking to a tree. If I was talking to a tree I'd be mad, and I'm not mad, so trees can't talk."
"Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees."
"I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals."
"Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life."
"All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases, chests, cupboards, and ovens represent the uterus...Rooms in dreams are usually women...Many landscapes in dreams, especially any containing breidges or wooded hills, may clearly be recognized as descriptions of the genitals."
