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“It’s hard to see the forest when you’re a tree.”
— Paula Gunn Allen, Chapter Three
“When iron was found, the trees began to tremble, but the iron reassured them: 'Let no handle made from you enter into anything made from me, and I shall be powerless to injure you.'”
— 5, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 61
“Buddha just sat under a tree and let the whole world come to him”
— Meditation for September 22, The Day of Restless Drive, in the book The Secret Language of Birthdays by and Joost Elffers
“Stultus est qui fructus magnarum arborum spectat, altitudinem non metitur.”
— He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.
“Expectation postponed makes the heart sick, but a desire realized is a tree of life.”
— Proverbs 13:12, NWT
“We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.”
— Psalms. CXXXVII. 2.

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