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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Trees were not hard, irritable things, but discreetly orgasmic beings moaning at a level too deep fo...

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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Is it as plainly in our living shown,By which way the wind hath blown?

The three species of pine native to Wisconsin (white, red and jack) differ radically in their opinio...

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Aldo LeopoldA Sand County Almanac And Sketches Here And There

I shall go and sit under a tree…. Which tree, Mma?... Oh, there are many trees in this life, she sai...

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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,...

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Mindfulness gives us the power to understand our deep connection with the trees, flowers, stars, sun...

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

Karma yoga is giving food to the hungry, clothes to the needy, shelter to the homeless, education to...

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I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the ...

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I know more about wheat and olive trees than I do about politics.

Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief.

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Arundhati RoyThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until th...

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I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little...

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The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosys...

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Bernd HeinrichThe Trees in My Forest

I think people who don't know the woods very well sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated...

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Bill McKibbenWandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks

I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to ca...

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The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

All the trees of the world appeared to be rushing towards Aslan. But as they drew nearer they looked...

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Lucy's eyes began to grow accustomed to the light, and she saw the trees that were nearest her more ...

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Scattered trees, never thick enough to be a forest, were everywhere. Shasta, who had lived all his l...

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Only five minutes later he noticed a dozen crocuses growing round the foot of an old tree- gold and ...

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Every moment the patches of green grew bigger and the patches of snow grew smaller. Every moment mor...

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There was certainly plenty to watch and listen to. The tree which Digory had noticed was now a full-...

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All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the w...

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There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo...

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If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of...

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In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slope...

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I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A river, suffering because reflections of c...

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As soon as he had disappeared Deborah made for the trees fringing the lawn, and once in the shrouded...

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Daphne du MaurierEchoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the ...

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Trees're always a relief, after people.

Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

I never see that prettiest thing-A cherry bough gone white with Spring-But what I think, "How gay 't...

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Dorothy ParkerNot So Deep As A Well: Collected Poems

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenm...

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I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached u...

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Trees love to toss and sway they make such happy noises.

I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair a...

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A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the a...

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I love the forest.

Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growin...

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Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and...

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Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space...

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I have sometimes thought that the reason the trees are so quiet in the summer is that they are in a ...

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can ma...

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Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood...

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A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it ar...

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He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces...

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I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees...

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He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces...

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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and ...

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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like you...

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He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces...

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He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces...

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Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, who ever knows how to listen to them, can...

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For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribe...

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Hermann HesseBäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte

Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum d...

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Hermann HesseBäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens...

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I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.

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Irvine WelshIf You Liked School

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

I am at home among trees.

I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintellig...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pin...

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When I was about ten, I was very impressed by the way Tarzan could swing through the trees from vine...

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Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended...

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Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fu...

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Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan t...

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Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.

We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declarin...

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He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

Nine-tenths of all artistic creation derives its basic energy from the engine of repression and subl...

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Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveli...

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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests...

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I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

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Joyce KilmerTrees & Other Poems

And see the peaceful trees extendtheir myriad leaves in leisured dance—they bear the weight of sky a...

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I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I lik...

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If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one pl...

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I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that c...

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The forest is only waiting for their signal to start trembling, hissing, and roaring from its depths...

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

The thorns thinned out and the trees grew taller and straighter, their branches not beginning until ...

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Because it wasn't merely that the trees were speaking to them. It was that the trees themselves were...

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If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which...

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If we hadn’t our bewitching autumn foliage, we should still have to credit the weather with one feat...

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When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall,rocks on distant hills shudder,lions hunker downin tall g...

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I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last...

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I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn'...

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Michael PollanSecond Nature: A Gardener's Education

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees tha...

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Neil GaimanFables and Reflections