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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. --George Bernard Shaw |
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For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. --Martin Luther |
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. --John Muir |
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The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. --Chinese Proverb |
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I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! --John Muir |
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. --Henry David Thoreau |
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. --Henry David Thoreau |
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You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night. --Denise Levertov |
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