"I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree."
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"The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall."
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"A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top."
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"I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees."
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"Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it."
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"Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers."
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"No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin."
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"You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish."
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"I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead."
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"The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God."
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"The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it."
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"From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood."
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"From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail."
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"Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it."
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"I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree."
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"I want to do for you what the spring does for the cherry trees"
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"As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought."
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"We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!"
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"The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement."
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"There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic."
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