He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
He plants trees to benefit another generation.
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
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 the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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.
Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.
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