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“If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.”

Ifs Looks Body Together Beauty Tree Branches Imperfection Knots Plant A Tree Perfection And Imperfection Tree Branches Dead Trees

Author:Matthew Fox

“A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.”

World Bigs Numbers Tree New York Beats Standing West Ships Hollow Clearing Dead Trees

Book:An Account of Col. Crockett's Tour to the North and Down East: In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-four. His Object Being to Examine the Grand Manufacturing Establishments of the Country; and Also to Find Out the Condition of Its Literature and Its Morals, the Extent of Its Commerce, and the Practical Operation of

Source: An Account of Col. Crockett's Tour to the North and Down East: In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-four. His Object Being to Examine the Grand Manufacturing Establishments of the Country; and Also to Find Out the Condition of Its Literature and Its Morals, the Extent of Its Commerce, and the Practical Operation of

“The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.”

Real Animal Tree Disease Gold Blue Vices Woods Proof Decay Flash Jewels June Vice Versa Dank Dead Trees

Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“As I look back on my fondness for the outdoors, and specifically the elements in nature that I find visually stimulating, I am surprised at how often the theme of dead trees arise. I guess it's that each one seems to have a story of its own, representing many years of living through everything that nature could throw at them.”

Years Looks Stories Seems Tree Elements Arise Theme Representing Fondness Dead Trees

Author:Cory Trepanier

“A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.”

Made Fall Fighting Animal Tree Havoc Dead Trees

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.”

Book House Cutting Tree Building Juice Manuscripts Dead Trees

Author:Christina Stead

“In the battlefield men grapple each other and die; The horses of the vanquished utter lamentable cries to heaven, While ravens and kites peck at human entrails, Carry them up in their flight, and hang them on the branches of dead trees.”

Men Humans Dies Heaven Tree Cry Horse Flight Branches Veteran Battlefields Ravens Veterans Day Kites Dead Trees

Author:Li Bai

“The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees.”

“What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a different system for remunerating creators, which gets it the hell out of the face of the public (who were never aware of it to begin with in the pre-internet dead tree era). Unfortunately, the current copyright model is enshrined in international trade treaty law, making it almost impossible to work around.”

Thinking Needs Different Faces Law Hell Impossible Tree Broken Internet Models Trade International Currents Creator Eras Treaties Copyright International Trade Dead Trees Law Making

Author:Charles Stross

“Jesus cursed a living tree and it died; Mohammed blessed a dead tree and it lived.”

Jesus Tree Atheism Died Blessed Positive Atheism Cursed Dead Trees

Author:John Remsburg

“A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

“A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and even if they saw, they did not know how to stop. They no longer knew what was enough.”

Source: The Complete Soldier Son Trilogy: Shaman’s Crossing, Forest Mage, Renegade’s Magic

“At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.”

Ifs Looks Littles Used Tree Sky Stranger Look Up Existentialism Trunks Overhead Dead Trees

Author:Albert Camus

“The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.”

Firsts Winning Force Tree Sky Endure Seeds Stem Trunks Tree Of Life Timber Tree Trunks Dead Trees

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges come loose. If my fate rests in the hands of a madman, let death come and bring its worse. I'll take the ruined craters of laboratories, the dead trees, this city with ashes in the oxygen, if it means freedom. I'd sooner die here than live a hundred years with wires in my veins.”

Ifs Years Mean Hands Dies Waiting Cities Fate Tree Pages Hundred Spread Genes Ashes Ruined Veins Oxygen Wire Laboratory Madmen Riddle Hinges Craters Dead Trees

Author:Lauren DeStefano

“They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.”

Trying Running Tree Rocks Shelter Dead Trees

Book:Carrie

Source: Carrie

“You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.”

Moving Fall Half Tree Wind Repeats Autumn You Like It Cripples Dead Trees Autumn Wind Leaves In The Wind

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”

“I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.”

I Can Water Tree Drink Mess Boxing Muhammad Dead Trees

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.”

World Heart Hands One Thing Tree Share Tragedy Dare Drawing Surrender Advertising Denial God Love Belonging Ritual Currency Ripe Ornaments Forgery Dead Trees

Book:The Recognitions: A Novel

Source: The Recognitions: A Novel

“Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants gather around them in rituals. In the Land of the Dead there was a sycamore in whose branches the goddess Hathor lived; she leaned out of it giving sustenance and water to deceased souls. In Memphis, Hathor's epithet was Lady of the Sycamore.”

Life Giving Firsts Art Soul Water Tree Land Sacred Ancient Branches Ritual Goddess Egypt Peasants Sustenance Ancient Egypt Deceased Memphis Epithet Dead Trees Ancient Art

Author:Larry Gates

“There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system.”

Feels Mother Culture Stuff Tree Bird Guilt Throwing Consumption Elephants Junk Unnatural Mother Nature Embedded Recycling Uneasiness Beetles Recycled Throwing Away Dead Trees

Author:William Booth

“The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he sees that tree, that dead tree that's taking all the nutrition and good things from the forest floor. He goes out and he gnaws at it, and he gnaws at it till the thing gets tired and it falls down. And the dirt from it raises other trees. It gives them good things to eat. It makes 'em strong. Gives 'em life. And the circle goes 'round.”

Knows Giving Running Fall Strong Lord Tree Bird Down And Raises Tired Good Things Rounds Circles Forests Ems Nutrition Dirt Falling Down Flocks Dead Trees

Author:James McBride

“Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.”

Tree Reader Green Dear Epitaph Green Trees Green Leaves Dead Trees

Book:Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir

Source: Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir