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No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its

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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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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It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon mens hearts, as for that subtle, something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. – James Russell Lowell

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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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