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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph—green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
(Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), British critic. "The Journal of Cyril Connolly 1928-1937," published in David Pryce-Jones, Journal and Memoir (1983).
Pryce-Jones chose these words for his book's epigraph.)
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A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
(Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president. speech, Sept. 12, 1965. Quoted in Sacramento Bee (California, Mar. 12, 1966).
Reagan later denied having made this statement.)
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The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 387, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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You are wind in a stark tree,
you are the stark tree unbent,
you are a strung bow,
you are an arrow.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "The Dancer.")
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The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
The Pear-tree spreads along the wall,
(Sara Coleridge (1802-1852), British poet. Trees (l. 3-4). . .
Oxford Book of Children's Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (1973) Oxford University Press.)
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Leaves of the summer, lovely summer's pride,
Sweet is the shade below your silent tree,
(William Barnes (1801-1886), British poet. Leaves (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse, The. John Hayward, ed. (1964; reprinted, with corrections, 1965) Oxford University Press.)
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Strong to break dead things,
the young tree, drained of sap,
the old tree, ready to drop,
to lift from the rotting bed
of leaves, the old
crumbling pine tree stock.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Demeter.")
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We are separated from God on two sides: the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
(Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Prague German Jewish author, novelist. The Third Notebook, January 18, 1918. The Blue Octavo Notebooks, ed. Max Brod, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. Exact Change, Cambridge, MA (1991). Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, New York, Schocken Books (1954).)
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The pine-tree drops its dead;
They are quiet, as under the sea.
(George Meredith (1828-1909), British poet. Dirge in Woods (l. 7-8). . .
The Poems of George Meredith. Vol. 1. Phyllis B. Bartlett (1978) Yale University Press 1.)
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O leave this barren spot to me!
Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.
(Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), Scottish poet. repr. In Complete Poetical Works, ed. J.L. Robertson (1907). "The Beech-Tree's Petition," st. 1 (1800).)
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