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"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."
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"Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top."
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"I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy."
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"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."
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"The land belongs to the future, Carl; that's the way it seems to me. How many of the names on the county clerk's plat will be there in fifty years? I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it-for a little while."
"As I went back alone over that familiar road, I could almost believe that a boy and girl ran along beside me, as our shadows used to do, laughing and whispering to each other in the grass."
"I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action."
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