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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lavinia

    I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light grow reddish across the misty pools, and listened to the troubled voice of the water. After a while I moved farther up the hill, where I could hear birds singing near and far in the silence of the trees. The presence of the trees was very strong...The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.
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  2. Hermann Hesse _ Bäume. Betrachtungen und

    Oh oak tree, how they have pruned you. Now you stand odd and strangely shaped!You were hacked a hundred timesuntil you had nothing left but spite and will!I am like you, so many insults and humiliations could not shatter my link with life. And every day I raise my headbeyond countless insults towards new light.What in me was once gentle, sweet and tenderthis world has ridiculed to death.But my true self cannot be murdered. I am at peace and reconciled. I grow new leaves with patiencefrom branches hacked a hundred times.In spite of all the pain and sorrowI'm still in love with this mad, mad world."
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  3. Hermann Hesse _ Bäume. Betrachtungen und

    Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum durch Blau und Wolkenflucht. Wie Blüten geh'n Gedanken auf hundert an jedem Tag -- lass' blühen, lass' dem Ding den Lauf frag' nicht nach dem Ertrag! Es muss auch Spiel und Unschuld sein und Blütenüberfluss sonst wär' die Welt uns viel zu klein und Leben kein Genuss.
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  4. Hermann Hesse _ Wandering

    A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, the longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home.
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  5. Paulo Coelho _ Aleph

    In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.
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  6. Chuck Palahniuk _ Survivor

    If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
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  7. Yann Martel _ Self

    Trees were not hard, irritable things, but discreetly orgasmic beings moaning at a level too deep for our brutish ears. And flowers were quick explosive orgasms, like making love in the shower.
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  8. Tracy Chevalier _ At the Edge of the Orchard

    Though grafted at the same time, they had grown up to be different sizes; it always surprised James that the trees could turn out as varied as his children.
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  9. Tracy Chevalier _ At the Edge of the Orchard

    He could not tell all of the California pines apart, the gray pine from the coulter, the bushop from the knobcone and the Monterey.
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  10. Tracy Chevalier _ At the Edge of the Orchard

    If redwoods are the backbone of California, oaks are of England.
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  11. Tracy Chevalier _ At the Edge of the Orchard

    It turned out plant collecting was a solitary occupation. In the past Robert had enjoyed being alone, or so he thought. Actually he had rarely been alone for long: working in hotels, in stables, on ranches and farms, and as a miner, he had always been around others. Now, out in the woods or up in the hills or out on the flat central plain, he could go for days without speaking to anyone. His throat seemed to close up and he had to keep clearing it, singing songs aloud or reciting the Latin names of plants, just to check that he still had a voice. 'Araucaria imbricata. Sequoia sempervirens. Pinus lambertiana. Abies magnifica'. He was surprised at how much he missed people..
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  12. Ray Bradbury _ Dandelion Wine

    I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under every tree is a shadow, right? So, then, what makes night? I'll tell you: shadows crawling out from under five billion trees! Think of it! Shadows running around in the air, muddying the waters you might say. If only we could figure a way to keep those darn five billion shadows under those trees, we could stay up half the night, Doug, because there'd be no night!
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