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• Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?

  Steven Pinker

  Ocean, Moon, Tree

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  When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

  Peter Marshall

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”

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• In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Creativity, Play

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.138

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• Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

  George Herbert

  Roots, Challenges, Storm

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• You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

  Neil Gaiman

  Beach, Writing, Sky

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• Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

  William Congreve

  Inspirational, Music, Rocks

  1697 Almeria to Leonora. The Mourning Bride, act 1, sc.1.

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• When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.

  Rick Warren

  Struggle, Years, Mushrooms

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Autumn, Jewels, Color

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• If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me peeking around this tree, she'll think I'm the dumbest person in the world... But if I don't peek around the tree, I'll never see her... Which means I probably AM the dumbest person in the world... which explains why I'm standing in a batch of poison oak.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Girl, Mean, Thinking

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• She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing. She looked at the oak: he would be a wizened, but hearty, old man with a frizzled beard and warts on his fact and hands, with hair growing out of the warts. She looked at the beech under which she was standing. Ah! --she would be the best of all. She would be a gracious goddess, smooth and stately, the Lady of the Wood.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Men, Hair

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• I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like a tear. Dad nods and walks to the Jeep, keys jangling in his fingers. A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. I rake the leaves out of my throat. Me: "Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Dad, Flower, Keys

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow to the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cutting, Squirrels, Acorns

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• CROWN Too much rain loosens trees. In the hills giant oaks fall upon their knees. You can touch parts you have no right to— places only birds should fly to.

  Kay Ryan

  Rain, Fall, Bird

  Kay Ryan (2007). “Say Uncle: Poems”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me every moment. I see you in the light of the water, in the swaying of the young trees in the spring wind. I see you in the shadows of the great oaks, I hear your voice in the cry of the owl at night. You are the blood in my veins, and the beating of my heart. You are my first waking thought, and my last sigh before sleeping. You are - you are bone of my bone, and breath of my breath.

  Juliet Marillier

  Spring, Sleep, Heart

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1”, p.260, Pan Australia

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• An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

  Nhat Hanh

  Tree, Trouble, Ifs

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.

  James Lee Burke

  Girl, Baseball, Lonely

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• Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The harder to hear your neighbors scream, my dear,' was David’s answer, and I sent my head up and down in agreement.

  Kim Harrison

  Agreement, Years, Iron

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• He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree to be; or, for image followed image, it was the back of a great horse that he was riding, or the deck of a tumbling ship -- it was anything indeed, so long as it was hard, for he felt the need of something which he could attach his floating heart to; the heart that tugged at his side; the heart that seemed filled with spiced and amorous gales every evening about this time when he walked out.

  Virginia Woolf

  Summer, Horse, Heart

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Orlando”, p.8, Lettere Animate Editore

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• Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I remember you.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Children, Clouds, Remember You

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• I found it curious that people kept animals for companionship and not food. When I'd asked Mama Oaks when she planned to cook the fat creature that slept in a basket in the kitchen, her eyes almost popped out of her head. Since then, she'd kept her pet away from me, like she suspected I meant to turn it into stew. Clearly, I had a lot to learn.

  Ann Aguirre

  Eye, Animal, People

  "Outpost". Book by Ann Aguirre, 2012.

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• What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Life, Nature, Religion

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• Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Down And, Littles

  1592 Messenger to Richard telling of his fatherYork's death. HenryVI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.54-5.

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• I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.

  Jennifer McMahon

  Baby, Lying, Skeletons

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• In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.

  Thomas Kyd

  Time, Pain, Fall

  c.1589 The Spanish Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

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• Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Men, Fire

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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