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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to

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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The place is all awave with trees,
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Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. – Fernando Pessoa

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It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees. – Wilson Flagg

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