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 Eye to eye.... |
 “In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.” - John Muir |
 “All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru” ― Masashi Kishimoto |
 If what I say resonates with you, it is merely because we are both branches on the same tree. - W.. B . Yeats |
 : Our Paulownia tree in our backyard attracts a lot of attention |
 The galah - also known as the rose-breasted cockatoo |
 With its bold and loud behaviour, the galah is familiar sight in the bush and urban areas |
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 Let's twist |
 This solitary Tree |
 The greatest gift of the garden in the restoration of the five senses.-Hanna Rion |
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 A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. |
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 Trees are sanctuaries...... |
 Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -Khalil Gibran |
 I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies...-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
 This tree used the sky as its canvas. |
 Awesome as a forest fire....... |
 Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. -Rabindranath Tagore |
 General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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 A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. Georges Ro |
 A tree is an incomprehensible mystery. -Jim Woodring |
 One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. -Paul Muldoon |
 The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. |
 All things share the same breath .... |
 A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. -Marcus Garvey |
 You can't be suspicious of a tree..... |
 Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. - Karle Wilson Baker |
 He who plants a tree Plants a hope. -Lucy Larcom |
 A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.-Theodore Roosevelt |
 Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
 The trees are whispering to me..... |
 Trees are your best antiques. -Alexander Smith |
 Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly! -Author Unknown |
 The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind. - Carly Simon |
 If you are thinking a year ahead, sow a seed....... |
 Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone. -Jens Jensen |
 I hear the wind among the trees...... |
 The leaves and blossoms sway and nod. |
 Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... |
 Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.-Henry Ward Beecher |
 Have you ever noticed ..... |
 And then as soon as the wind dies down..... |
 May the trees continue to thrive and flourish on this earth, filling our hearts with joy and inspiration.-- Stephanie Kaza |
 A tree is our most intimate contact with nature. - George Nakashima, woodworker |
 I never knew how soothing trees are ..... |
 And I don’t really know where I’m going..... |
 Bare trees, gray light Oh yeah it was a cold night Bare trees, gray light... -Fleetwood Mac |
 Alone with myself The trees bend to caress me The shade hugs my heart -Candy Polgar |
 To find the universal elements enough...... |
 It is the nature of the strong heart... |
 A sprig of wattle or Australia's colours of green and gold - 1 September - National Wattle Day |
 Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. -Christopher Morley |
 Winter is not yet gone - but now... |
 No good staying indoors, if you want to catch the wind. |
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 The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. -Diogenes |
 In the garden my soul is sunshine. |
 One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. - Samuel Johnson |
 There is always music amongst the trees in the garden... |
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 Light rays slide between each leaf... |
 A Jacaranda tree stands tall, and sways as if to say... |
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 Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms...-Friedrich von Schiller, "Ode to Joy," 1785 |
 It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. -Albert Einstein |
 When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster...LaoTsu |
 In the decline of life, shame and grief are of short duration. -Samuel Johnson |
 Nature is visible thought. - Heinrich Heine |
 Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. - Albert Einstein |
 My roots are in the depths of the woods. - Galle |
 Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. -Mark Twain |
 It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there. - Mia Hamm |
 Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you. - Dr. Seuss |
 This Aussie native is a member of the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) and belong to the genus Melaleuca |
 Spring is not far away. |
 Wattle - Australia's official national floral emblem, featured on the coat-of-arms. |
 Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? - Walt Whitman |
 Alone with myself The trees bend to caress me The shade hugs my heart - Candy Polgar |
 One impulse from a vernal wood..... |
 The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
 Another life... |
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 '... in the autunm breeze whispered winter prayers of trees ...' haiku by Naumaddku |
 'Autumn walk free of charge color therapy.' haiku by mamasanta |
 Never be sad for what is over, just be glad that it was once yours. -unknown |
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 The gum tree is australian as aussie as can be... |
 Never walk in the footsteps of others, or you won’t leave any of your own. |
 A smile is a light in the window of the soul, indicating that the heart is at home. |
 Still waters run deep. |
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 I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. -Maya Angelou |
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 A tree does not move unless there is wind. - Afghan Proverb |
 The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. -Susan B Anthony |
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 One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. -William Shakespeare |
 No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. - Elizabeth Bowen |
 It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. -Voltaire |
 We aim above the mark to hit the mark. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I choose the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.-Robert Frost |
 Birches through window, rain good soaking rain at last. |
 Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. --Albert Einstein |
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 Blowin' in the wind... |
 Think Like a Tree... |
 The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. -Chinese Proverb |
 “One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul”. - Henry David Thoreau |
 “Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds”. -Buddha |
 Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow... |
 We're born alone... |
 Each morning see some task begun, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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 A lone magnolia on a windy day. |
 Advice from a Tree... |
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 A lovely sight, as well a glorious sound from our magpie |
 Golden wattle |
 Come, Winter, with thine angry howl.... |
 Here is your black and white image Ceya |
 It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. -Aesop |
 My sister-in law Barbara latest brush work |
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 Family Tree... |
 Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone. -Jens Jensen |
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 A light to a tree |
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 Look at the trees... |
 Thy bounty shines in autumn unconfined And spreads a common feast for all that live.-James Thomson |
 We can learn a lot from trees: they're always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward. -Everett Mámor |
 Trees are your best antiques. -Alexander Smith |
 I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. -Douglas Adams |
 The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. -Erich Fromm |
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 Why are there trees I never walk under But large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? -Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1892 |
 A bit of warmth on a chilly morning |
 This view stumped me |
 You're not going thirsty here |
 A stroll and a chat |
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 I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. -- Johann Von Goethe |
 Vari-colored leaves waft at wind's gentle prodding-- Autumn rites recur- Victor Gendrano |
 Shades of autumn |
 Come said the wind to the leaves one day... |
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 Time is swift, it races by,,, |
 Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction - Edward O. Wilson |
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 I'm alive, I believe in everything... |
 Woods... |
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 How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. - George MacDonald |
 Fire is never a gentle master |
 I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do -Willa Cather |
 A hot dry summer with a glaring sun, gusty winds and clouds of dust |
 Forest scene |
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 Wind in pine... |
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 Last rays on the Mornington Peninsula at 80km an hour (as a passenger) |
 Trees stand silently all around, their quiet visage seemingly aware of my movements |
 Rain at last |
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 Across the road from us |
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 Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -- Gandhi |
 Shelter from the sun |
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 The heavenly blue of fresh new days... |
 Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. -Frank Lloyd Wright |
 Fitzroy Gardens and the Conservatory. |
 Cotton tree |
 Love recognizes no barriers... |
 Nature never goes out of style. -Author Unknown |
 Tree gather up my thoughts... |
 Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find... |
 ...healed the pain of a traveler’s heart... |
 The more we are separated from nature, the unhappier we get. --Unknown |
 Reflection at the edge... |
 One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul -Henry David Thoreau |
 Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky |
 Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way -Hosea Ballou |
 The way trees are lobbed in Melbourne. |
 A tree reflection |
 An explosive shout cracks the great empty sky... |
 “The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” Anonymous |
 Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven -Rabindranath Tagore |
 Sunrise over the Dandenong Ranges |
 There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments - there are only consequences -Robert G. Ingersoll |
 Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth -John F. Kennedy |
 A lonely birch basking in a late afternoon winter sun |
 Loving old priceless things... |
 End of a day |
 My daily activities are not unusual... |
 I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay. -Bob Dylan |
 Seeds of thought |
 All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. - Indian Proverb |
 Standing tall and proud |
 Moving on despite the scar |
 An oasis for a weary spirit |
 At the end of a day |
 A yellow bloom to do away the winter gloom |
 Down they drop like snow descending, Clouds of cockatoos. - ‘Banjo’ Paterson |
 No time to see, when woods we pass,.. |
 All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree |
 I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream. |
 Fading light |
 If a man walks in the woods ... |
 Sunrise on the trees |
 A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children -Audobon |
 To early man, trees were objects of awe and wonder... |
 The dead tree |
 The white gums kiss the sky with grey/green feathers of dew-damp leaves. |
 A show of defiance |
 Shush, please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a crow, yeah, I'm all black |
 They love the bare, the withered tree |
 The evening casts its shadows and a streak of gold |
 A blackened tree of smoke |
 A tree weaves a story, a history of time. |
 I never saw a discontented tree... |
 Dead tree dressed up |
 Tree conversations |
 White cockatoos on bare treetops giving blossoms to a gloomy winter day |
 The rustic tones of the Japanese maple |
 An afternoon well spent |
 The end is near for this Eucalyptus haematosa |
 Attention seeker |
 The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
 Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit -Kahlil Gibran |
 All embracing |
 Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. -William Wordsworth |
 Where distant hills meets the veil of heaven |
 This fence stopped me in my tracks, as a good fence supposed to |
 Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit -Kahlil Gibran |
 The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~Author Unknown |
 This pine lives at Burden Park |
 I love a crooked tree more than I hate a crooked man -- Frank Kramer, Councilman; Feb. 1, 1916; Palo Alto, CA. |
 Old timer |
 All dirty gray, bereft of leaves |
 The tree of love its roots hath spread |
 Dead and won't lie down |
 Poor indeed is the garden in which birds find no homes -Abram L. Urban |
 An elephant trunk amongst eucalypt trunks and a confused cow |
 Amputation |
 Walk through the palms |
 Casuarina glow |
 Advice from a Tree - Ilan Shamir |
 Possums on their nightly jaunt |
 It is good to live - and to die... |
 Three betulas |
 To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. -Helen Keller |
 Nature's carving hand |
 Roof top view |
 But, there are hours of lonely musing... |
 Playful winter sun |
 Autumn canopy |
 Tree scribbles |
 Bare trees at evening fall |
 Massive trunk, split in half |
 Grassy knoll.jpg |
 The end of a day |
 Tree study |
 Eucalyptus sideroxylon |
 A quiet spot at Ashmont |
 Downhill past many various cypresses |
 Salix caprea |
 Gumnuts and leaf |
 Tall beeches in Mariendaal |
 Stepping through a dark gully |
 Undressed they paddle far from shore |
 Old banksia |
 A giant wrestling match |
 Paulownia flowering |
 Down |
 Jinky seems to point out, this is my favourite tree and even Mei agrees |
 Mariendaal in winter |
 Magnolia souleanga |
 Baring it all |
 Eucalypt flowers |
 Tangled branches |
 The sun sets on mother and kids waiting for a soldier's return |
 Heavenly blue |
 Cypresses |
 Mariendaal Groene Bedstee and open fields in winter dress |
 An untidy weave |
 Paulownia tomentosa |
 In this moment of stillness, trees do speak |
 Count your blessings |
 Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night |
 In the month of September |
 I am a tree with two trunks |
 Lush groundcover |
 Paulownia trunk |
 Cypress |
 Down and out |
 Palms metalica |
 Young Eucalyptus caesia |
 ANZAC spirit |
 Weeping casuarina |
 Three gum nuts |
 Warts and all |
 Mariendaal De Groene Bedstee in Arnhem, The Netherlands |
 The lower leaves of the trees... |
 Don't play or stroll near this hazardous playground |
 Tree of the fairies |
 Tree complexion and do we notice some make-up |
 Trees in Fitzroy garden Melbourne |
 Tree-mendous sight |
 Pines on Grange Reserve glowing at the end of a hot day |
 Koelreuteria paniculata seeds hanging on |
 Feeding and playground of two noisy birds |
 Moon landscape |
 Tree decoration |
 Hopping along |
 An afternoon at Braeside |
 Three leaves |
 Bush beauties.jpg |
 Three trees and an oblong cloud |
 Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest. -Vivekananda |
 Twins at the Grange heathland |
 Bamboo walkabout |
 Casuarina tree or She oak |
 They took all the trees.... |
 A lovely bonnet |
 Nature's chisel at work |
 Bleeding gumtree |
 Birch leaf shadow on bark |
 Brown leaf framed in green |
 Magnolia seed pods |
 First WW1 soldiers remembered |
 Simpson and his donkey |
 Going towards a cool evening |
 Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightment -Lao Tsu |
 Fallen by the way side |