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Letter "P" » pine tree
«You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.»
«I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.»
«I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together: / That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.»
«The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
beautifies, beautify, beautifying, fir, fir tree, pine, pine tree, The Box, The Fir
«And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month: / And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.»
«The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience -- they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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devoured, fir, fir tree, impatience, pine, pined, pine tree, The Fir
«Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.»
«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.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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acquaintance, appointment, beech, beech tree, birch, birches, deepest, eight, frequently, miles, pined, pines, pine tree, pining, snow, tramp, tramped, tramps, yellow, yellow birch
«My apple trees will never get across / And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. / He only says, `Good fences make good neighbours'.»
Author: Robert Frost
| Keywords:
apple, cone, cones, Fences, get across, Neighbours, pines, pine tree
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