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            *Working Towards a Better World

Learn character from trees,
values from roots and 
change from leaves. -
Tasneem Hameed

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we
would rise up rooted like trees. - Rainer Maria Rilke

The roots of a family tree
begin with the love 
of two hearts - Anon

The tree which moves some to tears of joy, is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.  Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all.  But to the eyes of a man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. - William Blake

Trees are sanctuaries.  Whoever knows how to speak to them,
whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth... -
Hermann Hess

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, that is what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree. - Joyce Meyer

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. - John Lubbock

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. - Robert Louis Stevenson

He who plants a tree
Plants a hope. - Lucy Larcom, “Plant a Tree"

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughn

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. - Henry David Thoreau

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night. - Denise Levertov

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Taken on: February 20, 2015

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