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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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The place is all awave with trees,
Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,
Acacias having drunk the lees
Of the night-dew, fain headed,
And wan, grey olive-woods, which seem
The fittest foliage for a dream. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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There are rich counsels in the trees. – Herbert P. Horne

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How dear the woods are! You beautiful trees! I love every one of you as a friend. – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea, 1909

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