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Washington Irving was an American author known for his significant contributions to American literature. His works, including 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle', have had a profound impact on American literature.

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“There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to have his strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He who plants a tree looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing could be less selfish than this.”

Thinking Looks Age Strong Simple Tree Son Sweet Taste Pure Plant Arguing Selfish Forests Generous Glorious Posterity Relish Cultivation Hardy Plant A Tree Vegetation

Author:Washington Irving

“Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters--who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity.”

Kind Young Animal Progress Gains Letters Critics Forests Maturity Republic Bud Goats Deer Robbing Subsistence Shrubs

Book:The Complete Works: With a Memoir of the Author

Source: The Complete Works: With a Memoir of the Author

“Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her brought deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling waves in the magic of the summer clouds and glorious sunshine;-no, never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.”

“There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.”

Simple Tree Taste Pure Forests Cultivation

Author:Washington Irving

“The Indians with surprise found the mouldering trees of their forests suddenly teeming with ambrosial sweet; and nothing, I am told, can exceed the greedy relish with which they banquet for the first time upon this unbought luxury of the wilderness.”

Firsts Found Tree Sweet First Time Surprise Forests Luxury Wilderness Greedy Exceed Relish Banquets

Author:Washington Irving

“It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tendered kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet.”

Source: Rip Van Winkle: The legend of Sleepy Hollow and other tales

“He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.”

Nature Study Dare Forests Variety Stem Plunge Wildness Precipice

Book:The works of Washington Irving

Source: The works of Washington Irving