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This bill is like cutting down the tree with the bald eagle's nest in it when you could have just trimmed the branches, ... It proposes unreasonable solutions to reasonable concerns.

This is of huge concern to us as we are beginning to see an exponential increase in tree mortality - up to 40% in some areas.

You need really cold nights and days above freezing in order for the syrup to run through the trees. Friday is supposed to be warmer and you'd be surprised at how much direct sunlight on a tree will warm it up pretty quickly, so I think we will be OK for Saturday's event.

You might find him stuck in a tree in his backyard, pruning branches, creating new paths on Peaks Island.

You put away all the bad of the past year and look forward to all the good in the new one. Between all the singing and dancing and laughing and the big tree in lights, it looks just like a fairytale.

You're either a hero or a goat. I guess I'll go eat hay tonight. I think Silver Tree was probably the best horse. But going into a turf race with a lot of speed, I knew it would probably set up that way. It didn't open up in time for me. I played the hand that was dealt me. It just wasn't enough.

Your effort in meeting Tree Line USA requirements -- training your workers in quality tree-care practices and helping your customers to plant appropriate trees near utility lines not only helps to provide beautiful trees for the future, but also results in long-term operational savings for you company.

This is a tree frog that's possibly a new species.

This is an event to get people familiar with The Gardens and provide some educational background in tree planting and such. We're going to do some planting, but it's less of a workday and more of a day to celebrate the Earth.

In a very old tree you may be certain that the sapwood is on the outside, while the heartwood is in the middle

I've got nine jobs here because of that. I've noticed all the other tree companies were up in this area too so I don't know how many really went down.

In general, we'd like to know who's related to whom, and the pattern of the branches of the tree of life.

In general, what you start working with today is a nice and finished looking tree within two years.

In a series of articles beginning on Oct. 2, 1966, I wrote about the long-forgotten history of the Liberty Tree. To call attention to how obscure the site had become, I interviewed waitresses at the Essex Delicatessen below the plaque on Washington Street. None knew what the Liberty Tree was.

I needed to shoot a good score today, and I did, ... I played well, got a great break on one hole. I snap-hooked a drive on the par- five seventh into the hazard. It was dead left. It hit a tree and popped out to the front edge of the fairway about 100 yards off the tee. I laid up with a three-iron and hit a sand-wedge about three feet and made a four. It should have been a six or who knows what.

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree

I'm not trying to make fun of everyone, and not everyone is supposed to get that kind of humor. But the people here seemed to like it. The guy really wanted to tell me what kind of tree he would be,

I'm 50 years old and I've been playing this game since I was 9. I know when you go tree, tree like that, it's time to shake hands.

In the forest scene we had put a mike up a tree to capture the ambient sound... it is like reinventing movie-making, don't you see?

Instead, they're cultivated like corn or potatoes on plantations. The tree farmers use a lot of poison to keep weeds away from the roots and a great deal of fertilizer to make the trees grow evenly and look pretty.

If you could chop down a tree -- any tree at all -- what kind of tree would it be?

If you plant one species all along an area, when it matures, then you have a mass problem with tree removal.

In the summertime, if you walk down the street, and all you have is a palm tree shading you . . . that doesn't do it for me.

I fully expected to see that big pine tree lying on top of the house. It took our front porch, threw it over the roof and made it a back porch. But, in a way, I think we were one of the lucky ones.

If you put in a tree with a 4-inch-diameter trunk, you have an instant tree.

No, it's not terrible. There's fantastic news. Come to my place, you'll see some of it. Go investigate the American Tree Farm System. There are 65,000 members that are absolutely fantastic, exemplary stewards of the land.

I've hit a tree and flew off my bike; tumbled down a hill and landed on rock.

So, after a few months, the tree has turned into a kind of soil or compost that can be used in the garden as fertilizer.

As we said in making the announcement in September 2005, the company is committed to preserving Marshall Field's traditions -- the Walnut Room, Great Clocks, holiday tree and windows, etc. Crain's is making it sound like there's something more, which is not the case.

Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.

Sweet wasn't overpowering, but she changed speed well and they played good defense behind her. It was a very good game, back and forth. They have a very solid team, and we can correct our errors. All of our errors were in the last tree innings.

That guy uses a tree log for a bat. The pitch was down and away, I thought. But he got out in front of it.

The bomb was placed near a tree where women usually sit and take rest. Moreover, a wedding was just over when the blast took place. Had the blast taken place a few minutes earlier, the toll could have been more.

Everybody is fine in my home, so I'm thankful for that, ... A couple tree branches and stuff, which is normal for hurricanes. They had a power outage, but nothing serious.

That is too long for a club of our stature. We need to put that right as soon as possible. We want to be top of the tree in Europe. This is a massive tournament. The be all and end all in club rugby. It's vital we do well.

No matter how tall a tree grows its leaves always fall to the ground.

A bad tree does not yield good apples

The northern hill tribes burn rain forests so the land makes better grazing, ... Without tree roots there, it allows erosion.

The next generation is losing interested in tree farming. If we lose them, the land is just going to get converted.

It's traditional to have a live tree. It supports American farmers. Most the tree farms are in Oregon so it keeps a lot of the money in the Northwest. The truckers make a lot bringing them back and forth. It's one of the few American made products left.

It's unbelievably freakish. It's an absolute tragedy. You're always worried about getting into a bike wreck, about getting hit by a car, but nobody would think about a tree falling on you. That's the last thing you would think of.

It's preventable, but very expensive, and in most cases, you won't notice the tree has it and it'll be dead before you even think about treating it.

It sounded like someone beating a board on a tree trunk.

Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree

At this time of the year, a lot of the other plants have lost their leaves and some of that cover. Placing a tree outside, whether for squirrels, chipmunks or birds provides a brush-like structure and shelter from elements and predators.

The Christmas tree is the dot on the 'i'.

The issue is putting two monstrous obelisks in the middle of a bucolic area. The technology exists to lower these things substantially below the tree line.

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That's a story about us. We are like a Chinese bamboo tree. The Chinese bamboo tree is going to grow 90 feet, and it's going to grow this year.

It's when a fruit is growing on a tree and a twig or leaf brushes against the fruit as it's maturing and leaves this mark. It's a characteristic of a lot of oranges you never see.

It takes the tree at least one season to settle in and get growing again, but with Dave and Sam's care, they grow faster.

It takes time to get foundations established, but you can't grow an oak tree without planting an acorn.

It will look like the tree and waterfall have been here together.

I had been acquainted with this interesting tree for several years in China, but only in gardens, and as a pot plant in a dwarfed state.

In 1644, the last Ming emperor ... he hung himself from a tree just over there.

In the act of perception there are accordingly these two things, the mind engaged in a certain act, and the thing called the tree which is not mental.

In the six months at sea we never saw a tree or land.

His house is gone, ... They found his truck in a tree and the tools he used to work were in the truck. Who knows if they were lost or looted.

I heard one part where they couldn't afford the payment of the tree because it was so much, so I figured I'd come over here and talk to the homeowner and give him my services for no cost.

I heard this big loud thump. And, I guess that's when the tree hit the house and the lights went off for two hours.

I heard what sounded like a train wreck. I looked up and saw the tree falling on top of the car. I thought she saw it and had stopped, but she kept driving.

If you take down a tree to save a house, you should save the house. Don't come tomorrow and want to take down the house.

If you see a Christmas tree on its side, that means a danger area, so stay away from it. It could be thin ice, open water or a crack.

By trying often the monkey learns to jump from the tree

Christmas is a big deal in our family. A regular tree from any old lot just wouldn't do.

Christmas is going to be tough on a lot of people here in Greenville, but it is going to be especially tough on people who don't even have a house to put a tree up, ... The needs change daily. By that time, they are going to have a whole different bunch of needs.

Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill, Little care we; Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree

Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he haith not seen shall bless him.

far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!

I want a big 25-foot pink statue that holds my grave. Or I also might like the way the Indians did it. They hang you up on the top of a tree and the birds eat you. No, really I would probably choose cremating.

If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.

The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.

A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.

We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better.

I don't think lightning's going to strike this tree again,

Horn Lake is a Tree City USA city, and we're proud of our trees. We wanted to hold something that would encourage our citizens to get out and have a fun day in the park while also celebrating our regular Arbor Day observance.

How could I have known how much it meant for her to see a patch of blue sky, to observe the flying seagulls, or how important that chestnut tree was to her, when she had never shown an interest in nature before. But once she felt like a caged bird, how she longed for it. Even just the thought of the open air gave her comfort, but she kept all these feelings to herself.

How could it hit the tree and bury?

I don't know if we'll be able to move in by Christmas, but we're at least going to be able to put up a Christmas tree in here,

While I was walking I passed these two guys that were unloading this big Christmas tree off a truck. One guy, kept saying to the other guy, 'Hold the sonunvabitch up! Hold it up, for Chrissake!' It certainly was a gorgeous way to talk about a Christmas tree.

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [. . .] and nobody by to perceive them. [...] The objects of sense exist only when they are perceived; the trees therefore are in the garden [. . .] no longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.

Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.

Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.

The world is glittering with gold, and yellow streamers of sunlight wind through the tree boughs like God was throwing a party!

They can't see the forest for the trees. They get hung up on looking at the individual tree being cut, and can't see the benefit of the landscape as a whole.

These tree farms in Brazil are growing eucalyptus to full height in 10 years. The fiber is very cheap and they just grow these trees in concentric rings around a huge pulp mill.

They want emergency responders to be able to access the pipeline in a hurry if necessary without having to tear down a shed or a tree or something.

It was horrible. Trying to beat down the panic was the worst of it. I'm sitting there in my wheelchair and suddenly water starts coming through the doors, through the windows. Clinging to the side of my roof and a tree -- I would not wish that on my worst enemy.

It'll be an all-night pour, starting at 10 p.m, so it's going to be lit up like a Christmas tree out here.