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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. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French b

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Save a tree. Eat a beaver. – Author Unknown

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The groves were God’s first temples. – William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn”

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