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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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I think that I shall never see
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in their way. – William Blake

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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 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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