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“Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible.”

Way Want I Can Black Talking Doubt Tree Praying Woods Invisible My Way No Doubt Hug Oaks Talkers Oak Tree

Author:Mary Oliver

“Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and a half an acre on which a single tree was worth more than a hundred dollars. But this priceless land has been patented, and nothing can be done now about the crazy bargain.... a bad, black business from beginning to end.”

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.”

Knows Dream Song Black Fantasy Tree Red Gold Empires Do You Know Ribbons Bismarck

Author:Theodor Herzl

“On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered; Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee, Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree.”

Children Black Tree Fruit Heavy Tall Echoes Gathering Grapes November Ripe Shouting Glee Grove Chestnuts Walnuts Walnut Trees

Author:William C. Bryant

“Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It's a very weird place.”

People World Girl Fun Black Party Tree Crazy Sick Posts Covered Palms Leather Miami Apocalyptic Sunglasses Barbie Post Apocalyptic Warehouse Palm Trees Dark Glasses Weird Places

Author:Grimes

“The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can he hide in holy black The heron's hunch upon his back, But a birch-tree stood my Jack.”

Knows Humanity Black Tree Feet Holy Skins Safety Hypocrisy God Knows Tombs Bishops Geese Hunches Herons Birch Trees

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come down!" Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. "I can't," he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. "Why?" they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky. "Because then you'll stop asking for me."”

Said I Can Night Speak Stars Black Silence Tree Sky Died Asking Filled Notes Cried History Of Love Wistfulness

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.”

Giving Children Stars Black Sun Tree Creation Birth Mountain All Things Fishes Holes Snow Galaxy Whales Black Hole Lava Microorganisms

Author:Matthew Fox

“Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.”

Heart Said Night Black Sin Tree Strange Huge Grasping

Author:Neil Gaiman