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Saplings Quotes

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.

John Muir
Running, Tree, Saplings
John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.616, e-artnow

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

A. E. Housman
Wind, Snow, Saplings
'A Shropshire Lad' (1896) no. 31

A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.

Robert Jordan
Branches, Saplings, Blades
Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.352, Macmillan

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