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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 cant reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree wont 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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"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." »Winston Churchill
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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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"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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"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." »Winston Churchill
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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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"There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer
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"Friendship is like a sheltering tree." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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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"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." »Thomas Fuller
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"You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm." »Publilius Syrus
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"As the twig is bent the tree inclines." »Virgil
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"From a fallen tree, all make kindling." »Danish proverb
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"A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense." »American Proverb
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"If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh." »Patricia Hitchcock
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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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"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit." »Sir Walter Scott
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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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"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time." »Dr. Robert Schuller
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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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"Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground." »Malayan Proverb
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"To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life." »Kahlil Gibran
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