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Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

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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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The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

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Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

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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 tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.

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Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

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This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.

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I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.

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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

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PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.

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Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

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Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.

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Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

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I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie.

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she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.

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The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.

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A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

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Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

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Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

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I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

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