If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today. – Stephen Girard
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them — the whole leaf and root tribe. – Henry Ward Beecher
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? – Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
But these trees are derelicts—throwing out a wisp of foliage here and there, a truce to death, with each returning spring. – Julia Ellen Rogers, “The Big Tree and the Redwood,” The Tree Book: A
Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies. – Jim Clyburn
I cant advise any of the young ones, because I dont know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything – theres a real problem. – Shirley MacLaine
