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“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever.”

Life Age Force Growth Tree Youth Flower Birth Roots Green Rose Dumb Rebirth Fever Blast Crooked Destroyers Fuse

Author:Dylan Thomas

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!”

Play Spirit Song Winning Goal Heard Tree Youth Sweet Lovers Kissing Fairs Ears Sensual Bliss Grieving Tone Melody Fades Pipe Unheard Old Love

Author:John Keats

“I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.”

Hate Growth Tree Youth I Hate Green Rounds Prudence Spoil Clinging Sucker Ivy Saplings

Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.”

Looks Stills Young Tree Youth

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.”

Mind Wells Age Young Difficult Behinds Tree Youth All Things Ran Difficult Things Sap Be Young Old Trees

Book:The doctor

Source: The doctor

“A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.”

Heart Doe Young Grows Tree Youth Wounds Young At Heart

Author:Nellie L. McClung

“O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee.”

“When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen”

Stills Age Earth Heaven Beauty Tree Fronts Youth Stones Green Prime Wrinkles Insensible

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.”

Men Years Doe Book Hands Tree Youth Thousand Benefits Understood Hundred Mercy Prepared Fruit Be Prepared Assured Exalted

Author:Al-Ghazali

“...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.”

“It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.”

“A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.”

Needs Tree Youth Pruning

Author:Andrew Wiggins

“I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.”

Grows Growing Up Tree Youth Paper Down And Heavy Spread Seeds Flexible Notebook Saplings

Author:Jill McCorkle

“A memory from my youth comes back to me. You go into the woods on a bike, with a girl. There is the smell of heather, you can hear the wind in the fir trees, you don't dare tell her about your love, but you feel happy, as if you were floating above the ground. Then you look at the clouds beyond the trees and they are fleeting. And you know that within an hour you'll have to go home, that tomorrow will be a working day. You wish you could stop that moment forever, but you can't, it is bound to end. So you take a photo, as if to challenge time.”

“Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with blossomfoam, like a sudsy mug of beer; like a bride ripping off her clothes, dropping snow white petals to the ground in clouds, so Nature’s wastefulness seems quietly obscene. It’s been doing that all week: making beauty, and throwing it away, and making more.”

Mind Littles Seems White Tree Week Youth Clothes Losing Police Clouds Stores Snow Beer Stations Throwing Dropping Brides Liquor Petals Obscene Snow White Mug Wastefulness Liquor Stores

Author:Tony Hoagland