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• I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

  Edward Steichen

  Nature, Real, Light

  Edward Steichen, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1963). “A Life in Photography”, Random House Value Pub

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• No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dog, Animal, Parent

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• I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

  Rita Rudner

  Dog, Witty, Religious

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• A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

  Robert Benchley

  Dog, Perseverance, Lying

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Friendship, Education

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.

  John Muir

  Running, Tree, Saplings

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.616, e-artnow

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• I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Oracles, Lips

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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• Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop. Set down nothing that will not help somebody.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Rejection, Criticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Penguin

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• Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.

  Isaac Watts

  Dog, Religious, Delight

  'Against Quarrelling' from 'Divine Songs for Children' (1715)

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• Christians, of all people, should not be destroyers. We should treat nature with an overwhelming respect. We may cut down a tree to build a house, or to make a fire to keep the family warm. But we should not cut down the tree just to cut down the tree. We may, if necessary, bark the cork tree in order to have the use of the bark. But what we should not do is to bark the tree simply for the sake of doing so, and let it dry and stand there a dead skeleton in the wind. To do so is not to treat the tree with integrity.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Integrity, Cutting

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• The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

  Samuel Butler

  Dog, Humorous, Animal

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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• I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Love You, Inspiration

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.79, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

  Aime Cesaire

  White, Feet, Tree

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• Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

  Max Eastman

  Dog, Laughter, Laughing

  Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.34, Transaction Publishers

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• The dogs did bark, the children screamed,
  Up flew the windows all;
  And every soul bawled out, Well done!
  As loud as he could bawl.

  William Cowper

  Dog, Children, Soul

  William Cowper, “The Diverting History Of John Gilpin, Showing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, And Came Safe Home Again”

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• If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

  Byron Katie

  Cat, Reality, Trying

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.156, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The barks of trees are best gathered in the spring, if it be of great trees, as oaks or the like, because they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all barks only for present use.

  Nicholas Culpeper

  Spring, Tree, Use

  Nicholas Culpeper (1698). “The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred Sixty and Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs, that Were Not in Any Impression Until This. Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation; Containing a Compleat Method of Physick, Whereby a Ma May Preserve His Body in Health, Or Cure Himself, Being Sick, for Three Pence Charge, with Such Things Only as Grow in England, They Being Most Fit for English Bodies. Herein is Also Shewed These Seven Things, Viz. 1. The Way of Making Plaisters, Oyntments, Oyls, Pultisses, Syrups, Decoctions, Juleps Or Waters, of All Sorts of Physical Herbs, ... 7. The Way of Mixing Medicines According to the Cause and Mixture of the Disease, and Part of the Body Afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology”, p.273

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• Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

  Minna Antrim

  Wall, High Heels, Satiety

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• When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

  Frank James

  Dog, Horse, Feet

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• I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

  Jerry Reed

  Stars, Years, Pieces

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• Beware of barking at underdogs; don't fight with people who have nothing to lose.

  Dory Previn

  Fighting, People, Underdog

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• it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.

  Edna O'Brien

  Death, Dog, Night

  Edna O'Brien (1974). “A Scandalous Woman, and Other Stories”

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• A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means is that we must address trees as we must address all things, confronting them in the awareness that we are in the presence of numinous mystery.

  Brian Swimme

  Mean, Self, Roots

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• I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Heart, Sea, Tree

  Madeleine L'Engle (1986). “A Stone for a Pillow”, Shaw

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• Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures.

  Vera Nazarian

  Inspirational, Song, Wind

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