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"I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars."
"I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way ."
"Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and treelesswaste, or with only a single tree or two for suicides, and I shall be sure that in the latter will be found the most starved and bigoted religionists and the most desperate drinkers."
"Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind."
"In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it."
"I expect a time when, or rather an integrity by which, a man will get his coat as honestly and as perfectly fitting as a tree itsbark. Now our garments are typical of our conformity to the ways of the world, i.e., of the devil, and to some extent react on us and poison us, like that shirt which Hercules put on."
"When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here."
"The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched."
"My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree."
"We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA."
"Almost everything about the universe is astounding. I think the most amazing thing is how gifted we are - we are only monkeys who came down from the trees just recently. We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running."
"Do you know why the leaves change colour?... Before a tree sheds a leaf it pumps it full of all the poison it can't rid itself of otherwise. That red there--that's a man's skin blotching with burst veins after an assassin spikes his last meal with roto-weed. The poison spreading through him before he dies."
"The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber."
"she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice."
"Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday."
"Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook."
"Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy."
"A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be."
"Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees."
"And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree."
