In treating of the oak, I have considered that the species of it growing in warm climates is superior to that which is produced in cold countries. But we must not imagine this to be the case with all woods; on the contrary, the fir timber grown in cold countries is superior to that produced in warm ones, where its growth is rapid.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.
David Icke
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A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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I went to a public school in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and it's a very rural community. I was an artist kid, and I just didn't fit in very well.
Crystal Bowersox
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
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I worked in a coffee shop called Buzz Cafe in Oak Park. I started when I was 14 or 15, washing dishes, and then I became a barista and sometimes waited tables. It was an artsy scene.
Cecily Strong
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You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.
Jim Crace
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If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site or, for that matter, Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill - no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion.
Lydia Millet
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At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.
Alain Ducasse
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And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.
John Motson
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell Lowell
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
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Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Every acorn on the ground is just as alive as the three-hundred-year-old oak tree that towers over it.
Hope Jahren
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Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
George Herbert
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I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow.
Rory Stewart
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In New England, the pin oak thrives, its leaves tipping to a thorny point in a good-natured impression of its evergreen neighbor, the holly bush.
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Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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The turkey oak can grow practically submerged within the wetlands of Mississippi, its leaves soft as a newborn's skin.
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