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  • Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.

    Stars   Animal   Cities  
  • It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the pine tree as his enemy. He will fell it and let in the light, grub it up and raise wheat or rye there. It is no better than a fungus to him.

    War   Men   Light  
    David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.38, Harvard University Press
  • Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things." "But different things can often blend together," said the pine tree. "Let me tell you a funny story about pagan rituals.

  • Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.

    Nature   Garden   Tree  
    "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There".
  • The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that sometime an immortal pine will be the flag of a united and peaceful world.

    Garden   Tree   Peaceful  
  • The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!

    Islands   Oregon   Guy  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.

  • The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

    Nature   Spring   Years  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.56, Delphi Classics
  • Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

    Life   Science   Doors  
  • Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.

  • I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves-we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together, we are each other's destiny.

    Stars   Destiny   Feet  
  • Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.

    Country   Years   Rivers  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.532, Simon and Schuster
  • For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses, roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs, yellow blossoms flourished above you in autumn, and in winter frost heaved your bones in the ground--old toilers, soil makers: O Roger, Mackerel, Riley, Ned, Nellie, Chester, Lady Ghost.

    Horse   Winter   Autumn  
    Donald Hall (1990). “Old and New Poems: Donald Hall”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.

  • If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.

    Tree   Corn   Way  
  • 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.

    Flower   Night   Doors  
    Denise Levertov (1998). “Sands of the Well”, p.5, New Directions Publishing
  • A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.

    Lonely   Snow   Silence  
    Heinrich Heine (1887). “Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine”, London : W. Scott
  • As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.

    Dream   Space   Tree  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.40, Harvard University Press
  • I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

    Girl   Country   Real  
  • In snowbound, voiceless, mountain depths, to herald spring, pine trees sound in tune.

    Spring   Tree   Mountain  
  • Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .

    Heart   Tree   Mountain  
    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.1706, e-artnow
  • Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

    Snow   Tree   Stronger  
  • By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis, Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

    Daughter   Dark   Moon  
    'The Song of Hiawatha' (1855) 'Hiawatha's Childhood'
  • Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener.

    Thug   Air   Tree  
    Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.47, Penguin
  • As I go musing through this mournful land Soothed by the pine-tree's solemn harmony, Thy well-loved image comes and walks by me. I seem to hold thee by the gentle hand And talk of things I dimly understand, That thy dear spirit set to mine may be As to an intricate lock the simple key.

    Simple   Keys   Hands  
  • Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.

    Ronald Reagan, Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Graebner Anderson, Martin Anderson (2001). “Reagan, in His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America”, p.511, Simon and Schuster
  • Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing of her annual tide of life by the new verdure that yearly submerges all trace of last year's ebb.

    Brother   Ocean   Years  
    Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.73, Reprint Services Corporation
  • There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man.

    Nature   Cutting   Men  
    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.71, Trajectory Inc
  • I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.

    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.123, Trajectory Inc
  • Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

    Two   Tree   Curiosity  
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