Trees

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road

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I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. Dr. Suess

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You can't be suspicious of a tree,

or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

- Hal Borland (1908-1978), Sundial of the Seasons, 1964

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A tree falls the way it leans. Bulgarian Proverb

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From a fallen tree, all make kindling. - Spanish proverb

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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree."

- Joyce Kilmer, 1886-1918, Trees

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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