"People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table."
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"Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter talks about how you shouldn't chop down trees to make a book that no one will read."
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"Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop."
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"and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else."
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"You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen."
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"I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden."
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"If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can't see how beautiful it really is."
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"Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched; but it is being great to know that one is wretched."
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"Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees."
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"When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit."
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"It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree."
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"(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree."
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"To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down."
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"Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole."
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"It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish."
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"If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class."
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"My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . .""
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"One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow"
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"In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees."
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"What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness than the monument of a tree, ever growing, ever blooming, and ever bearing wholesome fruit?"
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