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Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.”

Should Soul Humanity Felt Tree Cease My Soul Miserable Exhibits Bolts

Book:Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus

“It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.”

Heart Strong Nature Tree Strive Endurance Strife Palms Stay Strong Being Strong Strong People Palm Trees Strong Heart

Author:Philip Sidney

“If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!”

Ifs Body Tree Offense Decorating

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it's a healthy outlet for them. If they weren't covering their lawns with twinkling lights, they'd be doing something that was really, really creepy.”

People Ifs Thinking Home Light Tree Healthy Crap Outlets Covering Creepy Lawns Christmas Tree Twinkling Twinkling Lights Really Creepy

Author:Lewis Black

“I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.”

Real Light Courses Nature Realizing Tree Roots Plant Branches Stem Magician Bark Foliage Plants And Life

Book:A Life in Photography

Source: A Life in Photography

“You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.”

Knows Kind Hard Running Kids Used Tree Climbing Bike Climbing Trees

Author:Mattie Stepanek

“A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.”

Kind Politics Cutting Tree Politician Speech Hypocrisy Conservation Hypocrite Fake People Plant A Tree Redwoods Stumps Hypocrit Being A Hypocrite

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“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

“Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.”

Memories Tree Ancestor Recollection Ancestry

Book:Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21

Source: Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21

“I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making loquat pie. They're really hard to peel and everything, and it took me forever, but they make the best pies. They're amazing.”

Hard Forever Tree Fruit Bunch Pie Backyards Fruit Trees

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it?”

Seems Faces Moving Growing Tree Rocks Ocean Plant Edges Lakes Organisms Blown Away Stationary

Author:David Suzuki

“Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.”