The Giving Tree

The Giving Tree

by Shel Silverstein

The Giving Tree

• Since its publication in 1964, Shel Silverstein’s picture book ‘The Giving Tree’ has been in constant publication. It is the type of book that has inspired many people to think about love, giving, receiving and the human condition. It has also generated debate over the nature of the above themes.

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Define in your own words: Unconditional love

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Define in your own words: Selfishness

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Define in your own words: Selflessness

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Define in your own words: Martyrdom

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"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money." -- Cree Indian Proverb

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"He plants trees to benefit another generation." -- Caecilius Statius

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"Friendship is a sheltering tree." -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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"When we plant a tree, we are doing what we can to make our planet a more wholesome and happier dwelling-place for those who come after us if not for ourselves." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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"Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest." -- Karl Kraus.

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‘A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe.... " -- Anton Pavlovich

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