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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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The place is all awave with trees,
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Acacias having drunk the lees
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I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
Ill never see a tree at all. – Ogden Nash

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