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"What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 322. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever. A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree." »Diane Frolov
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"The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out." »Will Rodgers
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"How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!" »Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 19
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"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all." »Ogden Nash
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"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing." »Abraham Lincoln
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"He who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many branches and few roots, which the first wind throws down; whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot." »The Talmud
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"Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange." »William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
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"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon'" »John F. Kennedy
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"Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandad' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss" »Nikos Kazantzakis
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"Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade." »Persian Proverb
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"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" (poem), 1914
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"Friendship is like a sheltering tree." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm." »Publilius Syrus
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"There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." »Thomas Fuller
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"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer
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"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." »Charles Dickens
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"Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'" »Russell Long
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"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit." »Sir Walter Scott
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"A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense." »American Proverb
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"As a twig is bent the tree inclines." »Virgil
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"As the twig is bent the tree inclines." »Virgil
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"If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh." »Patricia Hitchcock
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"From a fallen tree, all make kindling." »Danish proverb
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"Judge a tree from its fruit not from the leaves." »Euripides
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"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." »Kahlil Gibran
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