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“A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.”
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”
“All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.”
“We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. ”
“Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.”
“One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.”
“I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'”
“A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.”
“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”
“If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?”
“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.”
“trees [-] Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a person-of-the-arts, limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the winds music, the calligraphy of their roots pure ...”
“A tree depicts divinest plan But God himself lives in a man.”
“This is the forest primeval.”
“Tall oaks from little acorns grow.”
“The tree of knowledge of good and evil.”
“Poems are made by fools like me But only God can make a tree.”
“The tree is known by his fruit.”
“Woodman spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me And I'll protect it now.”