"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less."
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"To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks."
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"I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees."
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"Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have the demagogues stereotyping Muslims and resurrecting racist stereotypes they used to visit on us. The larger goal is to show that we are all the same, we all come from Africa, and we all have the same larger family tree. It's about the fundamental unity of the human community."
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"Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant."
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"To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect."
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"The groves were God's first temples."
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"The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread."
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"Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees."
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"It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man."
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"Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed."
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"And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn’t wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it."
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"Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books."
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"And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner."
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"Behold a tree. Does it not speak to us thusly: 'Don't you see that God is not working himself into a frenzy in me? I am calmly, quietly, silently pouring forth my life and bringing forth fruit. Do thou likewise.'"
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"The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed."
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"As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points."
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"I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper."
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"Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror."
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"Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates"
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