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“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. During a man's life only saplings can be grown, in the place of the old trees-tens of centuries old-that have been destroyed.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be so. What makes life dreary is the want of motive; but once beginning to act with the penitential, loving purpose you have in your mind, there will be unexpected satisfactions--there will be newly-opening needs--continually coming to carry you on from day to day. You will find your life growing like a plant.”

Want Life Needs Mind May Seems Purpose Views Growing Distance Plant Satisfaction Debt Opening Motive Unexpected Day To Day Dreary

Book:The Works of George Eliot in Twelve Volumes: Scenes of clerical life - Life of George Eliot

Source: The Works of George Eliot in Twelve Volumes: Scenes of clerical life - Life of George Eliot

“Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it - it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony.”

Life Bigs Earth Life Is Creatures Plant Symphony

Author:Diane Frolov

“No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.”

Life Facts Reality Alive Sea Bird Plant Cells Live Life Poetic Realism Entity Insects I Am Alive

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.”

People Life Humans Plant Mere Seeds Novelists Harvest Planting Seeds

Book:Infants of the spring: a novel

Source: Infants of the spring: a novel

“Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.”

Men Life Plant Ghost Hybrid

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one to the other. Remind us of Stravinsky. Know the names of plants and flying creatures. Hunt gauzy wings with snares of gauze. Make science pay tribute. Have a butterfly known by your name.”

Ifs Knows Life Country Play Names Language Pay Known Creatures Wings Plant Active Chess Flying Metals Butterfly Hunts Tribute Traders Snares Stravinsky Precious Metal

Author:Vladimir Nabokov