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“Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree”

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Author:Joyce Kilmer

“I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.”

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Author:Hamlin Garland

“Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.”

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Author:Hamlin Garland

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”

“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.”

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Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.”

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Book:New Collected Poems

Source: New Collected Poems

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”

Source: The Portable William Blake

“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

Source: Poems

“One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.”

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”

“A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.”

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Author:Hal Borland

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”

“I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.”

“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”

“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”

“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.”

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Book:Taking Care of Terrific

Source: Taking Care of Terrific

“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”

“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”

“"One impulse from a vernal wood”

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Author:William Wordsworth

“He who plants a tree, plants a hope.”

“In the woods we return to reason and faith.”

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Book:Emerson: Selected Essays

Source: Emerson: Selected Essays

“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.”

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Author:Aldo Leopold

“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”

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Author:Willa Cather

“To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”

Source: The Portable William Blake