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«Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.»
Author: Chanakya (Politician, strategist, Writer) | Keywords: crooks, trees
«A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.»
«A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.»
«God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.»
«Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.»
«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.»
«God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.»
«How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.»
«Even trees do not die without a groan»
«If a ragnar?k would burn all the slums and gas-works, and shabby garages, and long arc-lit suburbs, it could for me burn all the works of art ? and I'd go back to trees..»

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