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Walter Scott

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

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If a tree does not produce flowers during the spring season, it will not have any fruit to offer later in the year. This means that the presence of blossoms is a necessary step for the tree to eventually bear fruit in autumn.

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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.