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title: "7 Trees Grown Quotes by 6 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Trees Grown quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Trees Grown sayings and thoughts."
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> [The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-rooney/the-best-christmas-trees-come-very-close-to-exceeding-nature-if-some/)

[Andy Rooney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-rooney/)

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> [Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-trelease/readers-don-t-grow-in-trees-but-they-are-grown-in-places-where-they/)

[Jim Trelease](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-trelease/)

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> [If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/if-ever-you-come-upon-a-grove-of-ancient-trees-which-have-grown-to-an/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

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> [By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/by-now-the-morning-sun-was-just-over-the-horizon-and-it-came-at-me/)

[Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/)

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> [The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-patchett/the-light-was-cut-to-lace-by-the-trees-that-had-grown-so-thick-with/)

[Ann Patchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-patchett/)

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> [I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/i-think-what-you-notice-most-when-you-haven-t-been-home-in-a-while-is/)

[Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ca/mitch-albom-187_home_i-think-what-you-notice-most-when-you-ha_2889717.png)

> [“It was a perfect little model of a lamp-post, about three feet high but lengthening, and thickening in proportion, as they watched…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/it-was-a-perfect-little-model-of-a-lamp-post-about-three-feet-high/)

[C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/)

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