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Tree Quotes by Thomas Merton
- But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see…
- Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.
- The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.
- You have got me walking up and down all day under those trees, saying to me over and over again, "Solitude, solitude." And You have…
- Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
- A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.... The more…
- Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is…
- Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and…
- By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure,…
- A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents, 
- No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine…
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- The incident with Dawn hadn't been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn't expected to break any bones when I shoved… — Richelle Mead
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