Tree Quotations | Page 8

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? / Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

We knew where it was because of its radio collar, and we treed it using hounds. We tranquilized it, and it stayed up in the tree, so our tree climber went up, put a rope around him and lowered him.

A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

Each tree will give two gallons of sap in 24 hours.

Each jurisdiction varies widely on how many trees you have to keep in your project. Some have strict regulation about tree replacement.

Enough bugs emerge from one tree to kill three or four more.

Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

TV is like high school because you go into these series, and the people that work there have been doing it for seven years, like 'One Tree Hill,' so you are going into what is already a family - if you are accepted by that family, then it's fantastic fun.

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

A tree has also fallen across the road and on top of a car by Kitchener and Lancaster streets in Kensington, though there were no injuries.

A tree is a lengthy investment. If it gets a good start it has a good chance of growing well.

A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria

A tree root won?t get into your sewer line unless there?s something already wrong with your sewer line. I know most people don?t want to hear that, but it?s true.

As I see it, the most effective way to do this is frankly to accept these historical tales for what they are now known to be - folklore - and treat them in such a fashion that the realistic-minded, sophisticated people of our generation accept them... I sincerely hope that this painting will help reawaken interest in the cherry tree tale and other bits of American folklore that are too good to lose.

Is it possible for this boundless creation to be brought into existence by man, if there had been no Divine Principle behind it? For instance, fire is latent in the branches of a tree and in the tree itself. If the branches rub against each other, they may generate a fire which could burn down the tree, branches and all.

It would change the family tree a bit and put a new member in it.

The world won't end if we don't pick up their discarded Christmas tree today.

Think about the amount of energy it takes a person to walk across a nice, dry, grassy area versus a field of mud. The same is true for livestock. Also, livestock may be huddled up under a tree to escape the rain and aren't coming to the feeding area. It may be a challenge to get enough nutrients into them.

The tobacco-roller and his son pitched their camp beneath a gum tree upon the edge of the wood.

The tradition with the tree ... to me, it's funny.

The tree is fine. It's obvious what this was.

The tree is so badly burned that you can actually look at the cavity that has been created at the base of the trunk and see all the way through it. It has a sign 5 feet from it saying don't dump charcoal and a sign on the tree itself that says don't do that, but people do it anyway.

The tree itself just has this glow about it. You can tell it's significant when you approach it.

The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.

The tree root lifts up and breaks the sidewalk. They trim the roots back from the trees and put a root barrier, a piece of material next to the sidewalk that deters the tree roots from growing in that direction again.

The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth; / Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation: / It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.

The tree was 95 percent dead. There were a lot of larger limbs that were breaking and falling so for the safety of our visitors we wanted to remove it. The tree has been in serious decline for two or three years ...

The tree was inspected and limbed before the start of the PGA Championship. As a precautionary measure, the tree will be removed after the completion of the second round.

The tree was two feet in diameter and part of the roots were uprooted, it was such a significant impact,

The willow tree plays the water like a harp.

The windows, the roof. There's a tree in my house.

You cannot shift an old tree without it dying.

We're the spokesman for tree farmers across the nation for the next year.

As the water makes its way down into the valley, that's why we make sure the creeks and streams are cleared of debris. Our crews are out inspecting areas right now in preparation for the weekend and they're always on call if a tree goes down and causes a blockage. They're out to take it out.

As the house just filled up with water, it forced me into the attic, and then I ended up kicking out the wall and climbing up to a tree because the houses around me were just disappearing.

The temperatures will affect how quickly our linemen are able to work. The wind itself is going to be blowing those tree branches around, that are already in a very precarious position.

The signal we are looking for is very, very weak, about 1 watt of power -- or like looking for a Christmas tree light on Mars,

The tallest tree in the history of African American journalism has fallen, but has fallen gracefully. The tree that stood tall for over 60 years and a tree that planted a forest, a tree with widespread limbs and full of fruit. He connected to Africa and African Americans. He shared the pain of Emmett Till, the development of Martin Luther King Jr., and was a source of information and inspiration. He was the number one black publisher for 60 years. His impact had been felt through the whole world of journalism.

These Christmas tree recycling programs have really taken off in the last 15 years.

With some of the majors, you can't miss, like urban tree management. There's more jobs than there are people.

We love the Tree. And we wish the Tree was here with us.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

I've never seen a project with this much open space and tree density.

The roof might be gone, or a giant oak tree has crashed through a window.

With greening, just as with canker, we recommend wholeheartedly that they remove the trees. You're going to want to take the tree down if it has greening because it's good for absolutely nothing.

Very significant, very serious, we have stuff that must be addressed from a public safety point of view, from a tree health point of view.

We're very excited about him coming on board. I believe he's going to do some wonderful things for Pine Tree High School.

A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

We should get the internal plaza done first, ... I have been pushing for that as both mayor and as head of the Mayoral Task Force. I want it opened up and to see people use it again. It's probably the easiest part of the work to do. Let's get it open and let's decorate it in time for Christmas, get a large Christmas tree in there, and say Galway city centre is open for business again.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.

There is something unique about a tree in the center of a downtown that gives it a Christmas atmosphere.

There is not a tree in heaven higher than the tree of patience

Towers oxidize quickly and go from a shiny metallic color to dull gray. It's hard to see the towers, and I bet no one can tell you how many towers there are between Exits 1 and 5. It looks bad to have a painted tower with fake tree limbs and it's much taller than the trees around it. I call that the 'Wal-Mart Special.

'Botanicula' tells the story of a group of twigs, nuts, and leaves trying to escape with the life essence of a tree in tow before nasties from another world destroy them and everything else in their path. Yes, it's a point-and-click adventure game, but behind every click, there's a bit of joy to be found. Bugs sing. Bees dance.

Even the highest tree has an axe waiting at its foot.

Stuff the economy, Go hug a tree instead.

Actually, many years ago, we had a company-wide vote for our informal company-wide mascot, and the choices came down to the Boston tree fern, beef tape worm and a llama. And somehow the llama won the vote!

People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

The thing that shocks you is how much fruit is in one tree. Once we picked 400 pounds from one apple tree - we couldn't even fit into the car.

Normally, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air is very low, well below one percent. The levels seen in the ground and snow within tree kill areas are much higher, up to 99 percent, and very dangerous.

Fallen-tree video is absolutely essential to hurricane broadcasts. The most sought-after footage is, in order of ratings: 1. Big tree on strip mall. 2. Big tree on house. 3. Big tree on car. 4. Small tree on car. 5. Assorted shrubbery on car.

Without Gil Reed pushing this facility and the Pine Tree Zone incentives, we would be someplace else. This is a great facility. They have loading docks, they can do our shipping, they have a welding facility, there is plenty of electricity and Gil really sold us on the great work force.

Fiber utilization is important, we use every part of the tree and don't waste anything.

But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? / And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals and is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, and if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

Dear sirs. I am 70 years old and able to rake my leaves and burn them in a small pile. I stand there as they burn. All my near neighbors have said it is OK with them. I have serious back pain when I try to bend and bag leaves. I can't do it without pain. I want to keep my property neat and looking nice. I can't really afford $45 to have someone rake and bag them. A lot of people are allergic to tree mold what next, do we limit the number of trees in each yard? Hoping to burn.

I've looked at four different limb jobs, and three different tree jobs and it's only 10-thirty.

Back in Indiana, when a tree falls on your house, first you tend to the wounded, then you start to clean up, and then your family sits down and figures out to pay for it, ... Operation Offset.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. - Maxims

That tree has been hit (by cars) so many times. Before they put the guard rail in, it would keep cars that ran off the road from going all the way into the field." ()

As a precautionary measure, the tree will be removed.

A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.

A lot of people have been skiing Wine Tree and that area for a number of years so they feel like they're getting slighted.

A lot of people following this story in the media and investors... are really focusing on the tree and are not stepping back and looking at the forest. To date, only five percent of (music) sales have migrated digitally. We are in the very, very early days of this.

They said they had a tree that was a moon tree, but they had no details about it. I never heard of it, so I sent some messages to the NASA history office.

Quincy clearly feels, because of its proximity between the potato-growing areas and the apple-growing areas, it is a great area to consolidate a lot of freight here from both the tree fruit, the potato and the vegetable industries.

Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.

Root pruning. This is a lot quicker than digging a trench around each tree and just as effective in producing a root ball full of roots. We will leave these trees in their holes for another year to allow the roots to grow, then harvest them for sale.

Sometimes, that can knock some old tree over that's been sitting all summer," ()

Santa delivered a huge package under the tree and we may expand his package a little bit.

People say one tree doesn't make a difference, but really they do.

Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.

Feb. 2, that's when we take the tree down. Christmas lasts until that day.

First you must find... another shrubbery! (dramatic chord) Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place it here, beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher so you get a two layer effect with a little path running down the middle. ("A path! A path!") Then, you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forrest... with... a herring!

Florida citrus growers were devastated by the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005 due to tree damage and fruit loss, but more recently by the increased movement of citrus canker to new locations.

Evan jumped down, I climbed down the tree cause I wasn't going to jump.

There was a long weathered carpenter's bench under the tall tree in front of the little old house that Lawrence had lived in there.

Everything was gone or ruined, ... There were pine tree limbs going through the top of the kitchen into the bathroom.

Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree.

Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.

This tree was literally a sapling when Washington was marching down here. I'm hoping that whenever they develop the property, they'll leave it here.

This tree will stand and grow and prosper, I hope, as a symbol of how this nation will stand and grow and prosper,

There are gold, silver and bronze tiers and each of those tiers receives a different payment. Obviously, the higher up the tree you are, the more money you get.

We had a tree from outside of the right-of-way fall down across some lines. It sounds as though that may have caused the spark that started the fire.

To rise above tree line is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into birdsong, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.