... friendship ... is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings o...f friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These are the small townsmen of death, A man and a woman, like two leaves... That keep clinging to a tree, Before winter freezes and grows black....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and ...antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit,--not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look at the trees now, aren't they bare? But you let a certain day come for spring and they'll come out. They won't be the same le...aves that was there last year, but when they come out they're so pretty. I look out at those trees and just think, Oh, you're so beautiful. God sure dressed you up. I say that to a tree. The work I have done, if I have to do it over, I'm willin'. But I don't want to go back. Let me be the leaf just laying at the foot of the tree giving it substance to grow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We naturally remembered Alexander Henry's Adventures here, as a sort of classic among books of American travel.... He is a travele...r who does not exaggerate, but writes for the information of his readers, for science, and for history. His story is told with as much good faith and directness as if it were a report to his brother traders, or the Directors of the Hudson's Bay Company, and is fitly dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks. It reads like the argument to a great poem on the primitive state of the country and its inhabitants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly use...less to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his e...motions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personal ... response from their infants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unfortunately, life may sometimes seem unfair to middle children, some of whom feel like an afterthought to a brilliant older sibl...ing and unable to captivate the family's attention like the darling baby. Yet the middle position offers great training for the real world of lowered expectations, negotiation, and compromise. Middle children who often must break the mold set by an older sibling may thereby learn to challenge family values and seek their own identity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »