Tree Quotations | Page 11

And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they would have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea.

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.

How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind.

I love a tree more than a man.

In the country It seems as if every tree Said to me 'Holy! Holy!' Who can ever express The ecstasy of the woods! Almighty One, In the woods I am blessed. Happy every one in the woods. Every tree speaks through Thee. O God! What glory in the woodland.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

Your chances of getting hit by lighting go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms suck!!

Forecasts indicate we should expect heavy rainfall, potential flooding and a lot of tree debris. Flooding may affect underground facilities, and outages might be prolonged as a result.

A chameleon does not leave one tree until he is sure of another

It's the Grinch who stole Christmas, ... In a petty move, the Bush administration has banned minor activities such as Christmas tree harvesting and mushroom picking to express their opposition to a judge's ruling. The action is particularly ill-timed considering the short harvest season for mushrooms and Christmas trees. Precedent clearly shows that these kind of activities are not subject to administrative appeals. The Forest Service should rescind this punitive order and allow people who rely on these activities for their livelihood to pay the bills and put food on the table.

It's almost like having somebody come and steal the gifts out from under your Christmas tree because that was the next step. They were headed to go underneath my Christmas tree.

There's an ancient mosaic called the Tree of Life. All religions are branches of one tree.

It's typically not cheap. It depends on the risk, but there's a lot to be gained in taking a tree down in a controlled manner. Taking down a multi-ton tree is a big piece of work that takes some expertise. But it can be done with surprising little damage to structures and few safety issues.

It's unfortunate for the state of Vermont and particularly the syrup industry because you're eliminating the word Vermont on maple syrup on our product and all over the United States. Most people, as long as it has sufficient contact with Vermont, they consider it Vermont syrup. They don't care where the tree is.

It's a one-of-a-kind attraction in the U.S.. It really is the centerpiece of a whole new area that is adjacent to Thunderhead, the wooden roller coaster. It is a pretty exciting ride. It offers a sensation most people have probably not experienced before. It spins a little bit. It topples in a few different directions like a tree that has been felled.

It's sort of like Santa Claus left a present under the tree for everybody and leaves it open to litigation.

As always, customers are reminded to treat all downed wires as energized and are urged to avoid downed wires or areas with tree limbs on wires.

You don't want a big tree sitting in the middle of your picture window blocking your view.

They found a tree somewhere near you that tested positive. All the trees in a 1,900-foot radius are exposed and will show signs of lesions. By that time, they start infecting trees in another 1,900 feet.

They grow very quickly when they're young. In the next 10 years the tree might reach 12 to 15 feet in height. For it to get as big as the mother tree, we're looking at 50 or more years.

They have broken the law by not reporting who is paying for the barrage of negative attacks they have subjected Montanans to. Did they rob a bank, did they find it under a tree or are East Coast liberals trying to buy a Senate seat? It is time for the Democrats to tell the truth.

They are back here again, hundreds of them. Swallows barn swallows, tree swallows, banks swallows, rough wing swallows all birds that normally would have gone a long time ago.

There's debris, there are tree limbs all over. Traffic lights are out, ... Don't get in your car.

There's enough tree shaking going on. This is not going to be a situation that persists.

There's a whole tree of support that we could be giving the community that people don't know about yet.

There's a red leaf that falls from a purple tree it falls it floats down One red leaf against a clear blue sky it floats down Past the marble in the lobby and the geese in flight To the darkening river in the autumn light Where it touches down O like a great bird landing.

It's exciting for the kids to continue the tradition. Getting both teams back to state is exciting. We weren't as mentally sharp as we could have been Monday knowing going in that it was going to be us against us (third-place Pine Tree finished 53 shots behind the Gold squad). Today, the kids really came out and played awesome golf.

It's just ignorance, really, and not recognizing the damage they can do. You can go look at almost any big tree in any park and see on the leeward side of it there is charcoal.

You can hear tree limbs cracking and all of a sudden you look up, and there's a 500-pound limb falling. It is a mess, and we're trying to bring some order to the mess.

We woke up when we heard the rain, but we didn't think there was any danger. Then this big oak tree fell on the tent,

We saw one lineman using a chain saw cut through two water moccasins so he could remove a tree that was across lines.

I try to get out two to tree times a week to do something aerobically, either running or riding a bike. Then I lift weights a couple of times a week.

It was still standing and a tree was on it, but it was flooded. Everything we had in there was ruined, our TV and all our furniture.

It was the Cabbage Patch doll and Tickle Me Elmo of its time -- the thing you really hoped would be under the tree when you got up Christmas morning.

It will be a nice, little Christmas, just the four of us. We just got the tree up and the decorations (Thursday) night.

It?s a good alternative to just throwing your Christmas tree in the trash. In a landfill, they just bury it. That?s an anaerobic environment and, without oxygen, your tree could take a couple hundred years to decompose. This way, it gets put to good use right away.

We kind of let the dog lead the way and it probably sniffed every tree and bush in the neighborhood.

It's like you're caught naked hanging from a tree branch with the wind blowing.

It's good to be recognized. At the same time Caney Creek wasn't worried about Pine Tree being ranked in the top 10 all year (Lady Panthers beat Pine Tree in bi-district). It gets your name out there across the state. People recognize you're going things right. Other than that, it's not that big of a deal. We still have to play the games.

This just allows us to hit the ground running. I think there are sites we can designate as Pine Tree Zones immediately and that will help us mitigate the impact.

They're going to go home and every time they eat an apple, they'll remember how much sugar is produced by this tree and maybe they'll eat fewer snicker bars and eat more Pink Lady apples.

I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the objective world, as human beings, never really exists as we see and understand it. Matter exists, of course, but has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meanings that we attach to it. We can know only that a cup is a cup, that a tree is a tree.

I am an evil giraffe, and I shall eat more leaves from this tree then prehaps I should, so that other giraffes may die

Being a Tree City USA establishes the point that our government and our community care about trees, and we feel that trees help raise our quality of life.

Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.

Don't you worry about that, Mr. Adamsson. Why don't you head back to Reykjavik and spend some of that extortionate fee you charged me for a couple of hours' usage of your frankly third-rate restaurant and perhaps find a friendless tree stump to listen to your woes?

If I had my own Neverland it would probably be the coolest place in the world. You could do anything you want there. There would be trees everywhere.

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.

Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.

The value of the things is not in themselves autonomously, but that God made them, and thus they deserve to be treated with high respect. The tree in the field is to be treated with respect. It is not to be romanticized as the old lady romanticizes her cat (that is, she reads human reactions into it). This is wrong because it is not true. When you drive the axe into the tree when you need firewood, you are not cutting down a person; you are cutting down a tree. But while we should not romanticize the tree, we must realize God made it and it deserves respect because He made is as a tree.

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.

As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.

The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.

It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!

As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices, forming an intricate pattern of sound, I knew that someday I would have to return or be haunted forever by the beauty and mystery that is Africa.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines

Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch, and Pluplubasch when it has been raining? The word, the word, the word outside your domain, your stuffiness, this laughable impotence, your stupendous smugness, outside all the parrotry of your self-evident limitedness. The word, gentlemen, is a public concern of the first importance.

The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.

We have so many alternatives, like kenaf. It produces more crop, it's hardier, and creates incredible paper products. Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all. I'm inviting anyone else who thinks the same to reach out and get involved with our think tanks around creating tree free alternatives ASAP.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.

We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves.

When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, writing paper. Our consumption of trees is endless.

We recognize a tree by its fruit, and we ought to be able to recognize a Christian by his action. The fruit of faith should be evident in our lives, for being a Christian is more than making sound professions of faith. It should reveal itself in practical and visible ways. Indeed it is better to keep quiet about our beliefs, and live them out, than to talk eloquently about what we believe, but fail to live by it.

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories.

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

I don't want to force anything on anyone. I'm not trying to bust you over the head and make you buy this record or this song or whatever. I'm presenting it to you so you can take it in. You know, it's like trying to force a kid to eat broccoli. If I present it as trees that make your muscles grow, my son is like, 'I'm down with getting muscles.'

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.

Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.

Does anyone pray before they cut a tree? I haven't seen anyone do that yet in the timber industry. But my vision is that that day is coming. I have a vision of a world in which we relate to each other as souls - not as personalities - not as bodies and minds and capabilities to accomplish things in this domain of the five sense, but as immortal spirits learning together how to co-create this world.

Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.

Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--an almond tree or an oil well?

In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are not cold and our summers are not hot and we congratulate ourselves for choosing such a spectacular place to rest our heads.

Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too...

I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.

The trees like lungs filling with air My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair

From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not recognize me as something apart from them, and I was happy, so happy, because for the first time in years, and forevermore, I had not killed, and never would.

Do you say that tree isn't pretty cause it doesn't look like that tree? We're all trees. You're a tree. I'm a tree. You've got to love your body, Eve. You've got to love your tree. Love your tree. (Leah)

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.

All religions are branches of one big tree.

I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a sharply focused image. A landscape painted with exactness forces you to see a determined number of clearly differentiated trees, while in a blurry canvas you can perceive as many trees as you want. The painting is more open.

When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals.

No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens....spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

What we learned is money doesn't grow on trees.

In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.

My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.