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Homer Poet
Tree

"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."

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Martin Luther Theologian
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."

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Mary McCarthy Author
Tree

"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."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Tree

"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?"

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
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."

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Mira Grant Author
Tree

"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."

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Hugo Chavez Politician
Tree

"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."

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Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher
Tree

"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."

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