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A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. -- Cyril Connolly
I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali. -- Muhammad Ali
I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper. -- Henry Rollins
To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with. -- Christina Stead
A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing. -- Davy Crockett
The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa. -- Aldo Leopold
At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it. -- Albert Camus
In the battlefield men grapple each other and die; The horses of the vanquished utter lamentable cries to heaven, While ravens and kites peck at human entrails, Carry them up in their flight, and hang them on the branches of dead trees. -- Li Bai
There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system. -- William Booth
As I look back on my fondness for the outdoors, and specifically the elements in nature that I find visually stimulating, I am surprised at how often the theme of dead trees arise. I guess it's that each one seems to have a story of its own, representing many years of living through everything that nature could throw at them. -- Cory Trepanier
They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter. -- Stephen King
Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole. -- Anne Sexton
Trees are worth more alive than dead -- Prince
my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world. -- Charles Bukowski
I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive. -- Jane Austen
Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees. -- Kurt Andersen
There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. -- Charles Dickens
I glimpsed the contour of a wide river, its surface glittering white. Dead trees haunted its edges, their limbs stretching skywards, as if begging for forgiveness -- Christine Piper
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. -- Henry David Thoreau
You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing. -- Wallace Stevens
The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men. -- Sherwood Anderson

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