{"quotes":[{"text":"Again burst out that chant McKay had heard as he had floated through the mists upon the lake. Now, as then, despite his opened ears, he could distinguish no words, but clearly he understood its mingled themes - the joy of Spring's awakening, rebirth, with the green life streaming singing up through every bough, swelling the buds, burgeoning with tender leaves the branches; the dance of the trees in the scented winds of Spring; the drums of the jubilant rain on leafy hoods; passion of Summer sun pouring its golden flood down upon the trees; the moon passing with stately step and slow and green hands stretching up to her and drawing from her breast milk of silver fire; riot of wild gay winds with their mad pipings and strummings; - soft interlacing of boughs, the kiss of amorous leaves - all these and more, much more that McKay could not understand for it dealt with hidden, secret things for which man has no images.('The Women Of The Woods').","author":"Abraham Grace Merritt","tags":["bird","moon","natural","nature","pagan","spring","tree","trees"],"id":1513,"author_id":"Abraham+Grace+Merritt"},{"text":"Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.","author":"Chen Shui-bian","tags":["tree","forest","down "],"id":1946,"author_id":"Chen+Shui-bian"},{"text":"If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?","author":"Al Jourgensen","tags":["tree","beer","know "],"id":9009,"author_id":"Al+Jourgensen"},{"text":"When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree, we grow.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["culture","heritage","originality","reject","rejection","tree"],"id":9497,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.","author":"Thomas S. Monson","tags":["love","tree","long "],"id":9887,"author_id":"Thomas+S.+Monson"},{"text":"I expect you to vanishup and up into the tree,a shake of the branchesand gone like youhad never happened.But you came down and handed me a leaf'from seven limbs up,already yellow,' you said,and then you walked awayand you were still real.","author":"Karen Finneyfrock","tags":["loneliness","poetry","tree"],"id":11617,"author_id":"Karen+Finneyfrock"},{"text":"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["patriotism","tree","liberty "],"id":13129,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.","author":"Philip Sidney","tags":["strong","tree","heart "],"id":13987,"author_id":"Philip+Sidney"},{"text":"As the twig is bent the tree inclines.","author":"Virgil","tags":["tree","bent","twig "],"id":14456,"author_id":"Virgil"},{"text":"I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.","author":"Rodney Dangerfield","tags":["funny","tree","up "],"id":17077,"author_id":"Rodney+Dangerfield"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":271,"pages":28,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}