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One Tree Quotes

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
- David Herbert Lawrence

One tree isn't more important than the entire forest, Joe. You taught me that. Remember? Political pruning. (Syd)
Yeah, but every forest is always destroyed one tree at a time. You take care of those individual trees because each one that falls brings you closer to deforestation. You only prune what's rotten. You don't cut down a good tree for no reason. (Joe)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

He loved to draw. Animals pouncing mostly. And trees. Always lone trees in black landscapes.
- Malorie Blackman

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
- E O Wilson

Down the street, the trees are imprisoned equidistantly in square plots of dirt. Everything else is concrete. Lourdes remembers reading somewhere about how Dutch elm disease wiped out the entire species on the East Coast except for a lone tree in Manhattan surrounded by concrete. Is this, she wonders, how we'll all survive?
- Cristina Garcia

On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object.
- George Grey

There is one tree in Gainesville I call "Grandfather" because it looks like a giant Bonsai tree. Well, that and I actually thought it was my mother's father for the longest time.
- Jarod Kintz

If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.
- Viggo Mortensen

leaving for a day or two that hopeless sense of loss which makes beauty what it is: a distant lone tree against golden heavens; ripples of light on the inner curve of a bridge; a thing impossible to capture.
- Vladimir Nabokov

We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze
- Rasheed Ogunlaru

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.
- Chen Shuibian

If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can't see how beautiful it really is.
- Betty Smith

Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick..
- Cate Tiernan

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