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Quotations by Subject: Trees (19 quotes)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.: Tom Robbins (1936 - )
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If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.: Paul Fussell
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "Maine Woods," `Chesuncook'
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.: Bill Vaughan
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Two sodium atoms are walking along the street when one stops and says, "Oh my God, I think I've lost an electron!" "Are you sure?" asks the other sodium atom. "Yes," replies the first sodium atom, "I'm positive.": Anonymous

Results from Poor Man's College:

Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.: Field Marshall John French
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Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), Moral Essays, Epis, I, Line 149

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