Come to the sunset tree!
The day is past and gone;
The woodman’s axe lies free,
And the reaper’s work is done.
--
Tyrolese Evening Song, st. 1.Felicia Hemans
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Woodman, spare that tree!
Touch not a single bough!
In youth it sheltered me,
And I 'll protect it now.George Pope Morris
When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?
Jean-Baptiste Say
Oh leave this barren spot to me!
Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!Thomas Campbell
We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully — for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.
Randy Pausch
We should not be obsessed with the present alone, we must heed the past too. Is it fair, for instance, to see only the 25 ft. tall tree and forget the seed that brought it forth? Will the tree accept it if we forget the seed of it all? Is it possible to visualise a future without the seed? We must learn to appraise ourselves of the past if we want a meaningful present. You could call this an act of gratitude or an evaluation of reality.
Acharya Mahapragya
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