# Under the Greenwood Tree

- Author: [Thomas Hardy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy.md)
- Quotes: 2
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/under-the-greenwood-tree

## Quotes

> Good, but not religious-good.

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> To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock; the holly whistles as it battles with itself; the ash hisses amid its quiverings; the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall.

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