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"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."

"... sometimes it pays to mend other people's fences."

"... there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years."