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Jack Handey1 quote
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. — Jack Handey · 1991Joyce Kilmer1 quote
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree. — Joyce Kilmer · 1913Philip Whalen1 quote
Old and ruined, all rotted and broken up
These plum trees function gorgeously
A few days every year
In a way nobody else does. — Philip Whalen · 1970Thomas Fuller (physician)1 quote
He that plants trees loves others beside himself. — Thomas Fuller (physician) · 1732Willa Cather1 quote
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. — Willa Cather · 1913William Blake1 quote
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. — William Blake · 1799William Cullen Bryant1 quote
The groves were God's first temples. — William Cullen Bryant · 1824