Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.
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.
Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
I think that I shall never see_x000D_ _x000D_ A billboard lovely as a tree._x000D_ _x000D_ Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,_x000D_ _x000D_ I'll never see a tree at all.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
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