Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
History is like a constantly changing tree.
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.
In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
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