"As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed……" — Boris Pasternak
"As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf."
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.
— Donald Hall
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I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees…
— Sean Bean
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The John Birch Society is Communism's greatest ally. With its help we will divide and confuse the American people until…
— Nikita Khrushchev
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One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
— Paul Muldoon
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Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig…
— Arthur Symons
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In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do…
— David Richo
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Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm,…
— Edmund Spenser
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In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group…
— Gary Snyder
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What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many…
— Paul Harding
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If only we could touch the things of this world at their center, if we could only hear tiny leaves…
— Sam Hamill
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Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.
— Ray Davies
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