swanlillie

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they will never stop me from appreciating the little things in life

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“I am at home among trees.” J.R.R Tolkien| The Two Towers.

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“I stood entirely alone within a large, dense forest of black spruces in northwestern Ontario. I smelled their essence, relaxed in their embrace, looked upon them as friends.” D. Lawrence| The Green Trees Beyond.

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“It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!” John Muir| John of the Mountains.

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“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” Emily Brontë| Fall, Leaves, Fall.

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“But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit, what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others, and intolerable to myself.” Mary Shelley| Frankenstein.

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“For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.” Franz Kafka| The Trees.

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“trees were inviting; things you could trust and be near.” Toni Morison| Beloved.

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“I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.” Oscar Wilde| De Profundis.