Tree Tuesday: The soul of cedar with quotes and a famous painting

Spring is beautiful everywhere, but it is more than beautiful in Lebanon. Spring is the spirit of an unknown God speeding through the world, which, as it reaches Lebanon, pauses, because now it is as at home with the souls of the Prophets and Kings hovering over the land, chanting with the brooks of Judea, the eternal Psalms of Solomon, renewing with the Cedars of Lebanon memories of an ancient glory.
(Khalil Gibran)

I dwell in Possibility
A fairer House than Prose
More numerous of Windows
Superior--for Doors
Of Chambers as the Cedars
Impregnable of Eye
And for an Everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky
Of Visitors--the fairest
For Occupation--This
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise
(Emily Dickinson)

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn,
my cares fall from me - I am happy.
(Hamlin Garland)

Tivadar Csontváry-Kosztka : Pilgrimage to the Cedars in Lebanon, 1907,
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
(see more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivadar_Csontváry_Kosztka)

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(Source: mng.hu)

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ervin-lemark (71) · 8 years ago

Hey, our trees are six seconds apart :)

This is at the same moment when you look from eternity :)

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kalemandra (74) · 8 years ago

There is no coincidence, just syncronicity! :))))

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randowhale (67) · 8 years ago

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indmissbl (48) · 8 years ago

Awesome! Here is my entry:https://steemit.com/treetuesday/@indmissbl/tree-tuesday-moss-growing-on-a-sabal-palm-tree