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“Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast movement, and his mounted men could get from here to there much faster than any infantry could; but when they reached the field they usually tied their horses to trees and fought on foot, and they were as good as the very best infantry. Not for nothing did Forrest say the essence of strategy was to git thar fust with the most men.”

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Book:American Heritage History of the Civil War

Source: American Heritage History of the Civil War

“It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself!”

May Earth Tree Flower Essence Miles Desert Grass Scent Blades Blades Of Grass

Book:The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara

Source: The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara

“Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees - boil vats and vats of raw sap - evaporate the water - and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence.”

Writing Water Tree Essence Tiny Sugar Candy Thrillers Sap Boiling Compact Informative Maple Nuggets Vat

Author:Dan Brown

“The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of green so bright and pure that it hurt the eyes; the rest were not a color, but a light, the substance of fire on metal, living sparks without edges. And it looked as if the forest were a spread of light boiling slowly to produce this color, the green rising in small bubbles, the condensed essence of spring. The trees met, blending over the road and the spots of sun on the ground moved with the shifting of the branches, like a conscious caress.”

Source: The Fountainhead

“We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.”

Fear Hours Deals Company Learning Tree Produce Essence Silent Intimate Tribes Gracious Pacific Soothing Strengthening

Book:Pleasures and days: and other writings

Source: Pleasures and days: and other writings

“Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die.”

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Author:John Keats

“A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree”

Giving Mean Ideas Wisdom Speak Creative Tree Glory Essence Consent Glory Of God Obeying Obeying God Creative Love

Author:Thomas Merton

“I couldn't meet his gaze. I stared at the table just behind him--the mess of cards on it, the lantern giving off its quiet glow. "When you gave me your shirt to wear that night, I could feel you. I could feel your essence." The world went still. We were standing only inches from each other, not touching. Outside, I could hear the faint murmur of the wind blowing through the trees. "What did it feel like?" he asked in a low voice. "Like...coming home," I admitted.”

World Giving Feels Stills Home Night Voice Behinds Tree Wind Quiet Lows Standing Essence Tables Cards Mess Shirts Coming Home Touching Inches Lanterns Wind Blowing

Author:L.A. Weatherly

“The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on.”

Wanted Suffering Christianity Tree Garden Essence Fruit Atheist Forbidden Eden Garden Of Eden Subtext Tree Of Knowledge

Author:Frank Zappa

“My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.”

May Long Stills Two Done Night Fall Three Heaven Sleep Tree Picks Essence Winter Apples Scent Ladders Barrels

Book:Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost

Source: Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost

“Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five clusters, if they practice sincerely they attain enlightenment. Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. This is because the four elements and five clusters and plants, trees, fences and walls are fellow students; because they are of the same essence, because they are the same mind and the same life, because they are the same body and the same mechanism.”