Trees inspire me and have inspired hundreds of people who have come before me.

Sometimes I find quotes from past scholars fit my images best.

So today we will match images with tree quotes.

The best part of happiness is the pines. Terri Guillemets

“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.” — Herman Hesse

“A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.”– George Nakashima, woodworker

“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”– John Muir

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. — Willa Cather

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.” — Dolly Parton

“We can learn a lot from trees: they’re always grounded, but never stop reaching heavenward.” — Everett Mámor

“Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.” — Karle Wilson Baker

“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” — Rabindranath Tagor

“I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.” —  Henry David Thoreau,  1817 – 1862 

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. –Martin Luther

“Look deep, deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything.” — Albert Einstein

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Trees
Trees, proud standing people
stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying
glorious attention, breathing light.

strength
shelter
timeless confidence
bending and firm
comforting
rooted chorus line
dancing with the moon, the wind, the clouds
framing bursts of stars

tender rugged celebration

absorbing and releasing life
each holy branch
holding the power of the Universe.

There.

Courtesy of www.DailyCelebrations.com
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And I see joyful spirits in the two trees above the dancing in the sunlight – Julia