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My mobile-home neighbor was the first to speak."You"re not cutting it down, are you?" Another neighbor winced as I lopped off(砍掉) a branch. "Don"t kill it, now," he cautioned. Soon half the neighborhood had joined me under the apple arbor. It struck me that I had lived there for five years and only now was learning these people"s names, what they did for a living and how they passed the winter. It was as if the old apple tree gathering us under its boughs for the dual purpose of acquaintanceship and shared wonder. I couldn"t help recalling Robert Frost"s* words:

昨天148點擊，今天就先不發車了，大家都戳一下，到300明天多放幾個資源

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The trees that have it in their pent-up buds

To darken nature and be summer woods

One thaw led to another. Just the other day I saw one of my neighbors at the local store. He remarked how this recent winter had been especially long and lamented(哀悼) not having seen or spoken at length to anyone in our neighborhood. And then, recouping his thoughts, he looked at me and said, "We need to prune(修剪) that apple tree again."

i cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. no thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl』s kiss on your cheek.」 (chapter 73, pg 230).

「despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. it was a hell beyond expression. i thank god it always passed. a school of fish appeared around the net or a knot cried out to be reknotted. or i thought of my family, of how they were spared this terrible agony. the blackness would stir and eventually go away, and god would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. i would go on loving.」

there are also life of pi quotes that are inspirational and have become popularly used even beyond the fans of the book, such as the following life of pi quotes regarding faith and fear:

「i must say a word about fear. it is life』s only true opponent. only fear can defeat life.」 (chapter 56, pg 178)

「if you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? isn』t love hard to believe?」 (chapter 99, pg 330)

「the reason death sticks so closely to life isn』t biological necessity—it』s envy. life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. but life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.」