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“Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener.”

Mind Air Tree Twins Thug Cab Defenseless Cologne Pine Trees

Book:How Did You Get This Number

Source: How Did You Get This Number

“One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold a long time, to behold the junipers, shagged with ice, the spruces, rough in the distant glitter of the January sun, and not to think of any misery in the sound of the wind, in the sound of a few leaves, which is the sound of the land, full of the same wind, blowing in the same bare place for the listener, who listens in the snow, and, nothing herself, beholds nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is.”

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant.”

Strong Study Tree Teaching Rooted Elegant Resilient Hardy Plums Unbreakable Pine Trees Bamboo Evergreens Plum Blossoms

Book:The Art of Peace

Source: The Art of Peace

“Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.”

Made Spirit Tree Lows Stronger Spread Snow Limbs Pulpit Vaults Pine Trees Fresh Snow

Author:Daniel Woodrell

“You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.”

Years Stills Bigs Night Next Doors Tree Flower Neighbor Over You Shed Honored Dropping Needles Deck Cones Wakes You Pine Trees Arbor Day

Book:Sands of the Well

Source: Sands of the Well

“And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.”

Children Song Literature Known Tree Beats Singing Hot Folks Boss More Time Flirting Tasting Pulp Pine Trees

Author:Toni Morrison

“Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.”

Said Tree Wind Forests Pine Trees

Author:Thomas Merton

“There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.”

Tree Rocks Stones Isolated Caves Scarce Folklore Lone Pine Trees

Book:Journey Through Europe

Source: Journey Through Europe

“Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.”

Tree Fashion Wind Rain Spokes Pine Trees

Author:Michael Ende

“You know the Zen question, 'The Bodhisattva of Great Mercy' has a thousand hands and a thousand eyes; 'which is the true eye?' I could not understand this for a long time. But the other day, when I looked at the pine trees bending before the cold blasts from the mountain, I suddenly realized the meaning. You see, all the boughs, branches, twigs, and leaves simultaneously bend to the wind with tremendous vigor.”

Knows Long Hands Eye Tree Wind Cold Thousand Mountain Long Time Mercy Branches Blast Vigor Bending Twigs Pine Trees Bodhisattva

Author:Katsuki Sekida

“Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.”

Tree Pine Trees

Author:Euell Gibbons

“Many parts of a pine tree are edible.”

Tree Pine Trees

Author:Euell Gibbons

“No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.”

Looks Knowing Tree Spring Winter Dues Pine Trees Winter Season Winter To Spring Winter Time Due Time

Book:At the north of Bearcamp Water Chronicles of a stroller in New England from July to December

Source: At the north of Bearcamp Water Chronicles of a stroller in New England from July to December

“Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing of her annual tide of life by the new verdure that yearly submerges all trace of last year's ebb.”

Years Lasts Voice Half Tree Share Brother Ocean Mark Tides Last Year Magnificent Annuals Like Her Unchanging Pine Trees

Book:Outdoor Studies, Poems

Source: Outdoor Studies, Poems

“Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.”

Learning Tree Plant Pine Trees Bamboo

Author:Matsuo Basho

“The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!”

Feelings Wanted Guy Tree Decided Islands Oregon Pine Trees

Author:Christopher Atkins

“Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.”

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