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- Nov 07, 2020
Trees Quotes
Lines rooted in forests, campuses, and changing seasons.
Trees turn up here as backdrop and metaphor at once: a preference for country living surrounded by greenery, a startled first encounter with autumn leaves after moving abroad, and an old warning that the tallest trees catch the fiercest winds. For more grounded, everyday reflection, see Being.
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- Paradise
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
- Rude
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I moved to England, at 19, I had a rude awakening. I knew it would be chilly but when I saw leaves falling off the trees I thought someone had dropped a nuclear something!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Initial feedback we got from people was that Poker could and should be a product in its own right. For us, that was definitely a case of us not seeing the forest for the trees since we are Poker nuts.
- Nov 07, 2020
My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.
- Both Worlds
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
- Ascendancy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conventional Indian movie industry is not for me: I cannot dance around trees or the water-fountain.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020