document.write('<div style=\"border: 2px solid #EBE8D5; -moz-border-radius:10px; padding: 0px 7px 0px 7px;\"><h3 style=\"color:#aaa;font-family:georgia,serif;font-style:italic;\">Mary\'s favorite quotes<\/h3><br/>\n\n    &quot;Concerning trees and leaves... there\'s a real power here. It is amazing that trees can turn gravel and bitter salts into these soft-lipped lobes, as if I were to bite down on a granite slab and start to swell, bud and flower. Every year a given tree creates absolutely from scratch ninety-nine percent of its living parts. Water lifting up tree trunks can climb one hundred and fifty feet an hour; in full summer a tree can, and does, heave a ton of water every day. A big elm in a single season might make as many as six million leaves, wholly intricate, without budging an inch; I couldn\'t make one. A tree stands there, accumulating deadwood, mute and rigid as an obelisk, but secretly it seethes, it splits, sucks and stretches; it heaves up tons and hurls them out in a green, fringed fling. No person taps this free power; the dynamo in the tulip tree pumps out even more tulip tree, and it runs on rain and air.&quot;&mdash; <a href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5209.Annie_Dillard?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=quote_widget\" title=\"view all quotes by Annie Dillard\">Annie Dillard<\/a><br/><br/>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1118190-mary?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=quote_widget\" style=\"color: #382110; text-decoration: none; font-size: 10px;\">Goodreads Quotes<\/a><\/div><\/div>')