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Trees Quotes
17 of the best book quotes about trees
- #1″You may cut off my branches and build a house. Then you will be happy.”
- #2“And the boy loved the tree . . . very much. And the tree was happy.”
- #3“I would not, could not, in the rain. Not in the dark. Not on a train. Not in a car. Not in a tree. I do not like them, Sam, you see.”
- #4“You may like them. You will see. You may like them in a tree!”
- #5″‘Come, Boy,’ she whispered, ‘come and play.‘”
- #6“And they would play hide and go seek and when he was tired, he would sleep in her shade.”
- #9Far down in the forest, where the warm sun and the fresh air made a sweet resting-place, grew a pretty little fir-tree; and yet it was not happy, it wished so much to be tall like its companions— the pines and firs which grew around it.
- #10“I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!”
- #11“And every day the boy would come and he would gather her leaves and play king of the forest.”
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- #13″‘I am too big to climb and play,’ said the boy. ‘I want to buy things and have fun. I want some money. Can you give me some money?‘”
- #14“He would climb up her trunk and swing from her branches and eat apples.”
- #15“A thousand Christmas trees I didn’t know I had!
Worth three cents more to give away than sell,
As may be shown by a simple calculation.
Too bad I couldn’t lay one in a letter.
I can’t help wishing I could send you one,
In wishing you herewith a Merry Christmas.” - #16“I am too old and sad to play.”
- #17“I could not, would not, on a boat. I will not, will not, with a goat. I will not eat them in the rain. I will not eat them on a train. Not in the dark! Not in a tree! Not in a car! You let me be! I do not like them in a box. I do not like them with a fox. I will not eat them in a house. I do not like them with a mouse. I do not like them here or there. I do not like them ANYWHERE!”
