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"When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree. Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet And if thou wilt, remember And if thou wilt, forget." »Christina Georgina Rossetti
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Friendship is like a sheltering tree." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer
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"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." »Thomas Fuller
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"If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh." »Patricia Hitchcock
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"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit." »Sir Walter Scott
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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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"Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'" »Russell Long
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"As the twig is bent the tree inclines." »Virgil
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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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"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." »Kahlil Gibran
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"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe." »Abraham Lincoln
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"Biff Tannen So why don't you make like a tree and get outta here" »Back to the Future
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"As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on." »Woody Allen
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