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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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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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Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. – James Russell Lowell

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