“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.”
Source: As You Like It
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English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes

“Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.”
Experto crede: aliquid amplius invenies in silvis, quam in libris. Ligna et lapides docebunt te, quod a magistris audire non possis.
Epistola CVI, sect. 2; translation from Edward Churton The Early English Church ([1840] 1841) p. 324

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

“I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.”
Variant: I speak for the trees!
Source: The Lorax

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pages 271-284 (at pages 282-283)
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