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  • But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State. -- Dar Williams
  • I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other. -- Lawrence Fagg
  • By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top. -- Sakya Pandita
  • He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. -- Walter Scott
  • The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants. -- John James Audubon
  • The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world. -- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree. -- Victor Hugo
  • The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and only hope, hope only, the kind eagle soars and wheels in flight. -- Martin Carter
  • I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots. -- Cesar Pelli
  • If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • He splayed a hand out over the photographs, trembling fingers not quite touching the shiny surface, and then he turned and leaned toward me, slowly, with the improbable grace of a tall tree falling. He buried his face in my shoulder and went very quietly and thoroughly to pieces. -- Diana Gabaldon
  • I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye; And I reach to the shore of the sea With my ear. Nevertheless, I dislike The way the ants crawl In and out of my shadow. -- Wallace Stevens
  • A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet their roots. Where the wind smells of game and wildflowers." "Why, that was lovely, Lord Bill. Do you ever write poetry? Something for your blueblood lady?" "No." "She doesn't like poetry?" "Leave it." Hehe. "Oh, so you have a lady. How interes-- -- Ilona Andrews
  • I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. Its where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artworks sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms. -- Jessica McNamee
  • I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. It's where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artwork's sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms. -- Jessica McNamee
  • This old world keeps spinnin' round; It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down. -- Neil Young
  • Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade. -- William C. Bryant
  • The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land. -- Felicia Hemans
  • Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit. -- Plutarch
  • Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods. -- Richard Preston
  • To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. -- Gore Vidal
  • By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself! -- Masanobu Fukuoka
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