You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
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There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
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To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stones, the rare decorations which make the grays, the browns and the greens seem even more quiet, more completely at rest.
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In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.
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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
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Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable.. The hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street.. By a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
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