"If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest."
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"Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom."
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"Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best."
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"The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race"
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"He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together."
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"Yosemite Park... None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in one place like a tree."
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"The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way."
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"In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived."
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"But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer."
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"A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility"
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"But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees."
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"No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe"
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"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life."
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"I love a tree more than a man."
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"Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off."
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"Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow."
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"To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them."
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"The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes."
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"Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground."
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"A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral."
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