"If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman"
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"As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man."
"It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!"
"The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring."
"If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree"
"How rich a God our God is! He gives enough, but we don't notice it. He gave the whole world to Adam, but this was nothing in Adam's eyes; he was concerned about one tree and had to ask why God had forbidden him to eat it."
"You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk."
"Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops."
"Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River."
"When I was asked to do something good, I often say yes, I'll try, yes, I'll do my best. And part of that is believing, if God loves me, if God made everything from leaves to seals and oak trees, then what is it I can't do?"
"Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree."
"And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them."
"I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me."
"Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool."
"I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor."
"and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly"
"When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind."
"Samuel Johnson Is Indignant:that Scotland has so few trees."