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“Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.”
“Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.”
“Her ashes are scattered under the oak tree in the southernmost farm fields.Louise remembered that tree from the tour with Laurent - firmly planted, ancient, maybe even wise, reaching for the sky. I...”
“To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.”
“Why pay money for the horror movies? Just go to a street without trees!”
“Prying out a stump reminded him of how deeply a tree clung to the ground, how tenacious a hold it had on a place. Though he was not a sentimental man - he did not cry when his children died, he sim...”
“Age, that brings a dwindling to most forms of life, is at its most majestic in the trees. I have seen living olives that were planted when Caesar was in Gaul. I remember, in Illinois woods, a burr ...”
“We are part of a system that includes trees. Without trees, we will eventually all”
“I do not like this idea that we have begun to kill offat great velocity and accelerating speedall of the things that sustain us. I didnt like it at all when I first thought of it, but most people a...”
“There are rich counsels in the trees.”
“Most of the trees are already dying. All across North America from Mexico to Alaska, forests are dying. Seventy thousand square miles of forestthat's as much land as all of the state of Washingtont...”
“The next morning, the earth was strewn with debris from the windstorm the night before. An audience of trees looked down on severed limbs cast about the ground, their hunched and beaten postures re...”
“I hear the trees whispering sometimes. They don't talk to everyone. Or maybe they do, but not everyone listens. Do you hear them?”
“Even a lamb can defend itself, but a tree cannot even do that. If you are a just person, you never harm any tree, those defenceless angels!”
“Do jungle animals understand the true nature of the trees among which they have their daily being? In the parent-forest, amid those mighty trunks, we shelter and play; but whether the trees are hea...”
“A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!”
“By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!”
“Trees make man happy in thousands of different ways; in return, man hurts the trees in thousands of different ways! What an honourable being man is!”
“Quick, someone's coming! Look real!”
“...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playgr...”
