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“When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.”

Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical

“The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees and saying, "I know what I want. I know what I think." And then suddenly at 11 or 12, the gender role takes hold, and adults tell us, "How clever of you to know what time it is." It happens to boys, too and even sooner - between five and eight. Before that, boys cry and express uncertainty.”

Thinking Knows Want May Happens Girl Boys Roles Five Tree Cry Adults Eight Gender Clever Nine Instance Uncertainty Climbing Gender Roles Descending Prisms Climbing Trees

Author:Gloria Steinem

“One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?' Which says something about the nature of philosophers , because there is always someone in a forest. It may only be a badger, wondering what that cracking noise was, or a squirrel a bit puzzled by all the scenery going upwards, but someone.”

May Doe Fall Bits Sound Wonder Tree Philosophical Philosopher Forests Noise Scenery Squirrels Puzzled Recurring Badgers Philosophical Questions

Book:Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

Source: Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

“Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?”

Ifs Men World Believe May Fall Growing Tree Feet Higher Rain Garden Foolish Backwards Babylon Rain Falling Antipodes

Author:Lactantius

“The biblical passage which says of Abraham and the three visiting angels: "And He stood over them under the tree and they did eat" is interpreted by Rabbi Zusya to the effect that man stands above the angels, because he knows something unknown to them, namely, that eating may be hallowed by the eater's intention.... Any natural act, if hallowed, leads to God, and nature needs man for what no angel can perform on it, namely, its hallowing.”

Ifs Knows Men Needs May Three Natural Tree Effects Eating Angel Intention Passages Biblical Abraham Visiting Rabbi God And Nature

Author:Martin Buber

“There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans. We are all one interdependent organism, so our focus may seem broad but each element interacts with the other. We have so many phenomenal eyes, skills, and hands on deck. It's mind-blowingly exciting.”

Mind Humans May Hands Seems Eye Animal Focus Tree Skills Elements Rivers Exciting Broads Organisms Living Things Phenomenal Deck Humans And Animals Differentiation

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Children should be encouraged to search out in nature the objects that illustrate Bible teachings, and to trace in the Bible the similitudes drawn from nature. They should search out, both in nature and in Holy Writ, every object representing Christ, and those also that He employed in illustrating truth. Thus may they learn to see Him in tree and vine, in lily and rose, in sun and star. They may learn to hear His voice in the song of birds, in the sighing of the trees, in the rolling thunder, and in the music of the sea. And every object in nature will repeat to them His precious lessons.”

“Just because you may not see this big, grand show or you may not fall down a tree and all of a sudden get miraculously healed, that doesn't mean the miraculous isn't all around you.”

May Mean Shows Bigs Fall Tree Miraculous Falling Down Healed

Author:DeVon Franklin

“When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line, but in fact it's nothing like that. The work is very experimental and most of the time it develops like branches. I usually see a capillary, like a tree shape where there are... branches that sort of move because you're not tending to them.”

Feels Looks May Facts Moving Lines Tree Like You Shapes Productions Branches Organize Straight Lines

Author:Vik Muniz

“To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.”

People Mind May Different Tree Blue Everyday Faithful Phases Different Minds Everyday Living

Book:A New England girlhood

Source: A New England girlhood

“There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.”

May I Can Play America Courses Chance Tree Elements Hopefully Sand Australia Links Scotland Belts Golfers Backyards

Author:Tiger Woods

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

“Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.”

Looks May Found Tree Formation Mushrooms Bursting Parasites Hardened Tumors Birch Trees

Author:Paul Stamets

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“Journey’s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing. Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night, And swaying branches bear The Elven-stars as jewels white Amid their branching hair. Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.J.”

“Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by”

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”

May Law Dies Leadership Break Tree Sky Packs Jungle Trunks Girdles Tree Trunks Creepers Packs Of Wolves Wolf Packs

Author:Rudyard Kipling