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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 only paradise is paradise lost." »Marcel Proust
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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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"paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much better" »Laurie Anderson
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"paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better." »Laurie Anderson
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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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"Patience is the key to paradise." »Turkish Proverb
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"Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out." »Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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"Love is the rehearsal of paradise." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Doubt in love is the Devil in the paradise!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." »Jorge Luis Borges
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"He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh." »Koran
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"Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none." »Doug Larson
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"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." »John Berry
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"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape." »John Lancaster Spalding
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"Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of paradise." »William Blake
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"A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse, and a hell to the soul." »Elizabeth Grymeston
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"If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the paradise, I will give up believing in God!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste." »Evelyn Waugh
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"It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste." »Evelyn Waugh
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"A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Yet ah why should they know their fateSince sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise." »Thomas Gray
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"Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years." »Bertrand Russell
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