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Tree Quotes by George Eliot
- Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting…
- It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
- Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new…
- It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will…
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