"I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow."
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"What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive."
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"All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry."
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"I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees."
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"Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest."
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"My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death."
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"An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble."
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"In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these."
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"I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings."
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"Even trees do not die without a groan."
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"The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stopping short at a uniform height, four or five feet from the ground, like eaves, as if they had been trimmed by art, so that you could look under and through the whole grove with its leafy canopy, as under a tent whose curtain is raised."
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"Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country."
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"It seems that every life form on this planet strives toward its maximum potential... except human beings. A tree does not grow to half its potential size and then say, "l guess that will do." A tree will drive its roots as deep as possible. It will soak up as much nourishment as it can, stretch as high and as wide as nature will allow, and then look down as if to remind us of how much each of us could become if we would only do all that we can."
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"If you don't like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn't enough, change it. If something doesn't suit you, change it. If something doesn't please you, change it. You don't ever have to be the same after today. If you don't like your present address change it - you're not a tree!"
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"All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree."
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"Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed."
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"I was a caddy. I also worked as a bouncer, selling Christmas trees at Frank's Nursery and before that, selling what they normally sell."
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"They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb"
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"Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day"
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"The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work."
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