Saturday, February 14, 2015

Paul Angiolillo

Paul Angiolillo


When Asia asked if there was anything special I wanted to say about trees, my reaction, after a moment’s thought, was: What’s not special about trees? What hasn’t been rightly celebrated about these giant creatures? I thought I’d Google some quotes about trees. Here are some of my favorites:

It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! ~John Muir, July 1890

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.  ~Denise Levertov

The groves were God’s first temples. ~William Cullen Bryant

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I’ll never see a tree at all. ~Ogden Nash,

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing “Embraceable You” in spats. ~Woody Allen

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