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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? --Alice Walker |
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. --Cree Indian Proverb |
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Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree. --Astrid Alauda |
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If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today. --Stephan Girard |
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Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning? --Frank N. Ikard |
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. --Hal Borland |
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. --Bill Vaughn |
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. --John Muir |
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. --Nelson Henderson |
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Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. --Kahlil Gibran |
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No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. --John Muir |
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