
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.Rumi
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Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.Rumi

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.Marcus Garvey

In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of the black liberty in Saint-Domingue; it will spring back from the roots, for they are numerous and deep.Toussaint Louverture

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing.Wangari Maathai
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.Bruce Lee
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.Abraham Lincoln
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world any more. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.Albert Schweitzer
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My heart is like a singing bird whose nest is in a watered shoot; my heart is like an apple-tree whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit.Christina Rossetti
If this kadamba tree, Mother, stood on the banks of the Yamuna, I too would sit upon it and slowly become Kanhaiya.Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.Warren Buffett
A scientific institution has to be grown with great care like a tree — its growth in terms of quality and achievement can only be accelerated to a very limited extent.Homi Bhabha

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.Kahlil Gibran