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Letter "T" » trees
«One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade»
«Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.»
Author: E. F. Schumacher
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Economist,
Founder)
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Keywords:
acorns,
bigger,
big tree,
fatter,
interest,
oak,
oak tree,
ordinary,
persuade,
persuades,
pigs,
Something Big,
to become,
trees,
tries
«Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.»
Author: Lincoln Steffens
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Keywords:
became,
chance,
faces,
get the jump,
jumping,
jump on,
jump out,
jump up,
Monkeys,
take a chance,
trees
«There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.»
Author: Minnie Aumonier
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Keywords:
always,
for music,
garden,
hear,
hearts,
In the Garden,
music,
Music I,
must,
quiet,
quieted,
quieter,
quietest,
quiets,
there is,
The Garden,
The Garden of the,
trees,
very
«The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.»
«Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.»
«Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(
Physicist)
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Keywords:
ahead,
bush,
bushes,
lost,
stand,
stand out,
stand still,
still,
stilled,
stiller,
stillest,
stilling,
stills,
The Stand,
trees
«Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.»
Author: Billy Graham
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Keywords:
adversity,
batter,
battered,
battering,
batters,
Christians,
defeat,
Human nature,
mountain,
ridge,
ridges,
rise,
storms,
strongest,
trees,
winds,
wind rose,
wood
«The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.»
«See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(
Founder,
Missionary)
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About:
Silence
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Keywords:
able,
flowering tree,
flowers,
grass,
grasses,
grassing,
grows,
moon,
mooning,
moon on,
move,
move in,
need,
silence,
souls,
stars,
sun,
The Moon,
The Sun,
touch,
trees