"A brotherhood of venerable trees."

-- William Wordsworth

#Tree Quotes #Brotherhood Quotes

“I want to give my kids the world, but I also want them to appreciate everything, to succeed, to be good people, to enjoy life. This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.”
“Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage”

Source : Don Paterson, Charles Simic (2004). “New British poetry”, Graywolf Pr
“Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.”

Source : Ted Chiang (2007). “The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate”, Subterranean
“You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation...”
“Bullshit, as you Americans say. He's Irish. The Irish say bullshit too.”
“To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.”
“The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion.”
“In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.”

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