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“However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not conform with the general plan.”

Ifs May Plans Sacrifice Tree Rivers Clouds Hills Colour Conform Exquisite

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.”

Book Written Sacrifice Tree Thousand Hundred Brave Deeds Miles Desert Squares Great Book

Book:Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.”

Men Dies Jesus Sacrifice Tree He Man Woods Saving Sinner Nails Bent Infancy

Author:Octavius Winslow

“Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay”

Humans Looks Grows Half Heard Sacrifice Tree Color Lips Flesh Maps Tenderness Decay Doom Poisonous

Book:Ah Pook is here, and other texts

Source: Ah Pook is here, and other texts

“In the midst of all the candy and commercialism, let's not lose sight of the true meaning of Halloween: tree worship and animal sacrifice.”

Loses Animal Sacrifice Tree Worship Sight Midst Halloween Candy True Meaning Commercialism

Author:Dana Gould

“I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder.”

Littles Seems Might Beautiful Fall Wish Growth Poor Sacrifice Tree Century Crime Murder Noble Owners Unnecessary Despots Beautiful Trees

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”

Littles Boys Sacrifice Tree Little Boys

Author:Shel Silverstein

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”