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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. – Willa Cather, 1913

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Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson,
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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

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No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets. – Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs, 1887

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. – Minnie Aumonier

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