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Pine

See Pinus classification for complete taxonomy to species level. See list of pines by region for list of species by geographical distribution.

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Famous quotes containing the word pine:

    “It was the pine alone, chiefly the white pine, that had tempted any but the hunter to precede us on this route.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Lodgepole
    coneseed waits for fire
    And then thin forests of silver-grey.
    in the void
    a pine cone falls”
    —Gary Snyder (b. 1930)