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I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Afternoon, Shrubs
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2713, Delphi Classics

There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch.

Steve Toltz
Office, Bangs, Shrubs
Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live by your rules.

Janet Macunovich
Cutting, Shrubs, Plant

I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look like a chair.

Richard Schultz
Design, Looks, Shrubs

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

Henry Ward Beecher
Tree, World, Shrubs
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.89

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