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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

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If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. – Jack Handey

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Ill never see a tree at all. – Ogden Nash

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

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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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