Tree Whispers

• Who has seen the wind?
  Neither you nor I:
  but when the trees bow down their heads,
  the wind is passing by ... Christina Rossetti
• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty ... Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind ... Bruce Lee
• All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree ... Albert Einstein
• The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit ... Saint Teresa of Avila
• The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we ... Nathaniel Hawthorne
• All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green ... Johann Von Goethe
• Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong ... Winston Churchill
• What do we plant when we plant the tree?
  We plant the ship that will cross the sea ... Henry Abbey
  
• Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• I think that I shall never see
  A poem lovely as a tree ... Joyce Kilmer

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