Trees Quotations

The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.

Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.

As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

Climate change is important to Malawi, but many people see alternative energy more as a means to skip the government and get electricity and power. Deforestation is a huge problem in Malawi, which only adds to the problem. People cut down trees because they have no power to run electric stoves, etc. So they use firewood.

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

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

It's either I have to be in the trees or in the ocean, otherwise I lose my mind. I have to get connected with nature, otherwise I don't feel very good. And that's what life's about, feeling good, so nature knows best for me.

I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I started practicing stand-up. While I was doing stand up, I got 'Community.' It's like I planted trees six years ago, and now they have fruit.

I have had the most wonderful childhood, and I was raised in a very loving family. And it was nothing short of an amazing privilege because I was incredibly lucky to be able to play up in trees and make it like silly dens in a bush and stuff like that.

I'm an adrenaline junkie. I love climbing crazy trees or cliffs, which doesn't make my mom very happy.

Christ's fishermen should not meddle with men's law, for men' s law contains sharp stones and trees by which the net of God is broken, and the fish wend out of the world.

My plat de resistance is potato salad with garlic and olive oil which we press from the olives from my trees in the grounds of my home near St Remy de Provence. I have four hectares and take the olives down to the local community press at Maussane les Alpilles. I don't produce big quantities; it is just for the family and friends.

At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o'clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the dark. We walk to the other end of town, as the big harbour is just the right setting for buying a Christmas tree. We spend hours choosing, looking at every branch suspiciously. It's always cold.

She was green when green wasn't in. From sea to shining sea, Lady Bird Johnson has left her legacy in a more beautiful America. From millions of trees and wildflowers planted, to interstates free from billboards and replaced with green.

Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are trees and houses and other objects; it is a plane of consciousness within us. Seekers of the eternal Truth will realise their eternal Heaven within their aspiring hearts.

I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.

My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

When I was 7, I went to school in Switzerland because everyone on my mom's side of the family lives there. Then we were back in Australia, in Queensland. That's where we had the chance to have lots of different animals. I spent a lot of time living in nature and building cubby houses in big old trees by the ocean.

Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but I feel good about it. I chained myself to the gate of a phone book factory, a GTE factory in Los Angeles. They were using thousand-year-old trees to make phone books. I think that's a total waste of a tree.

I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.

Obviously, movies, you're often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the trees and the cars are real. But when you're on stage, as an actor you're imagining the environment that you're in.

My affinity for trees as a material seems to come from a childhood spent wandering the forest around Southern Pines - a place with thick underbrush and many intersecting lines evident in the bare winter branches of trees.

One of the problems is the ground gets saturated, and the trees are more likely to fall over followed by a stiff wind.

One of the recommendations is you may need to water the trees more after a storm or hurricane for quite a while until it's able to put new roots out.

On the other hand, landowners need to be realistic when it comes to their expectations of what resources and how long it takes to reach their objectives, whether it's a crop of trees or an aesthetic view, ... Unreasonable expectation by the landowner can also result in expensive lessons.

Only people who come down from trees spit.

I was so brainwashed about how abnormal this was going to be with all the changes. It's not that abnormal. Even if the course is unbelievably tough, look at the beautiful trees and the flowers. It's a paradise.

Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees

One of the things we are increasingly concerned with is the status of trees in town and the way old mature trees that provide shade to the town are dying and not being replaced.

Of course it pushed some trees over and the ones that got righted back up, it might have broken the roots from where we pulled them back up, but I don't think there's going to be any real problems.

My dad loved the trees and taking care of the yard. He loved flying and parachuting. He was trying to go to Florida to do some free-fall parachuting. He loved the grandkids. He was a nice guy, he was outgoing, he was always busy; he didn?t like to sit still. He was very friendly and polite.

My father died beside trees on iron rails... He had 77 dollars on him at the time, and we used the money for Thai takeout because, as my friend Julie says about times like this, 'You still have to eat.'

Possibly the flooding was triggered by the cutting down of trees higher up the hill. But we don't know yet for sure.

Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

If these were allowed to go forward, the total would allow more than 70 clear-cut logging units to add to more than 150 already existing clear-cut units that are just in this general area north and east of Big Trees Park.

Love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden. It's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination to make it too, just like anything else.

There are trees down all over the place from the flooding. I don't think it's a possibility (to run the exact same course as last season). Things could change, but it would take a major effort by somebody.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

When trees are killed in fires, there is a lot of dead standing timber out there. Our fear is that eventually a wind storm will blow the dead trees over and create an enormous campfire effect across thousands of acres.

When trees are stressed, they emit a different odor, just like a person under stress. Insects detect this odor and attack them.

We're looking at palm trees now to replace the shade trees.

May brooks and trees and singing hills join in the chorus too, and every gentle wind that blows send happiness to you.

Mountain streams and rivers that were orange when I was a kid are now filled with fish, are now lined with trees and rhododendrons, and that's progress.

Most trees and grasses require four to six hours of sun a day to thrive.

Mainly, we can't get into a fire because of the blow-down (of trees and branches).

Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm.

Simple pictures with lots of flowers, trees and green - full of emotion and positive energy. You can see at once they all have a very positive attitude. They are open to everyone. We just have to help them along in life.

Several businesses are totally destroyed. Trees literally are sitting inside of houses.

The principal motivation was to find a way to deal with all the beetle-kill trees and reduce fuel-loading in the forest. Our study showed it looked feasible from a technical as well as an economic viewpoint.

We won't be cutting exposed trees anymore. We can't do what we don't have money for.

I was lucky. I was able to take a full back swing. I had an 8-iron, a perfect club, the ball went through the trees and on to the green. It was one of those shots that I probably will never forget.

There are still vast neighborhoods of rubble and toppled trees everywhere. Even when you're standing there and looking, it's unfathomable how much has to be done, even seven months after the hurricane hit.

I could see pretty early in the game. But it's not about that. It's team effort. I got a lot of blocks, but we were intimidating inside because we are trees (tall players) out there.

I am standing here looking at the oak trees that would be taken away.

Four hours after we finished planting those acorns, we got the call from friends at church that Hope Stout had died. And while we had already been thinking about ways that we could use those trees some day to give back to Hope, that sort of sealed their fate as the Hope Oaks.

Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, / where I sow my words daily: and you know, / these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, / moving along the waterways / and four seasons of the faithful sun.

For us, it's always been a concern. Over the years, there's been a number of minor accidents. There are trees and sort of dips in the grass, and stones out there, and so on and so forth. It's pretty dangerous.

If a tornado went over a row of trees and didn't hit a house, there was no way to estimate the scale.

If it stays warm long enough and we start to have trees with young, tender leaves and blossoms, and those get hit by frost, then you could lose your first flush or bloom for the year.

I had to zigzag around trees and power lines ... I had no access to maps, and there were no street signs. It was a little challenging for an out-of-towner.

I believe that there are some trees that (would) have to be taken down. I believe they will have some lights at night, and it could impact the bird population, and the noise may impact the quality of life of people living in that area.

Brush and trees had prevented it from rolling the entire distance, however, it was not known how long the brush ... would be able to sustain the weight of the vehicle.

Because such equivalence sets can contain other patterns -- in turn containing further patterns, and so on -- the resulting body of knowledge grows recursively, as a sort of forest of branching trees of possibilities.

Because such equivalence sets can contain other patterns in turn containing further patterns, and so on the resulting body of knowledge grows recursively, as a sort of forest of branching trees of possibilities.

Because we're fairly flat and we do have trees and escarpments in the middle of our landscapes and valleys, those pose challenges.

To date, many of the crabapple trees have been replaced with flowering cherry trees, which also have an alternating pink and white flower. We wanted to keep the same theme along the street in the spring.

Here in St. Charles, you can't believe what it was like six months ago, in the sense that to imagine when you're looking at debris, wires down, big oak trees upturned, that this many months later, you'd be able to have this sort of party going on.

Here is an existing structure we can use, ... There are several advantages. Its centrally located, a good height, there are not a lot of trees in the way and its good topography (without many hills in the area).

Here is an existing structure we can use. There are several advantages. It's centrally located, a good height, there are not a lot of trees in the way and it's good topography (without many hills in the area).

We're not going to tie ourselves to trees or have sit-ins or any of that. But we're probably going to be sending out letters and going to council meetings.

What is a park really? ... We don't have access to it anyway. So I look out the back and I see some trees, but we have trees behind us anyway.

What is becoming clear now is that the trees will not grow to the sky.

He's a cat's cat, he climbs trees and sits on people's roofs but now he's forced to be in the house all the time.

We sustained hurricane winds of about 100 to 120 mph for about a nine-hour period, so we have thousands of trees down within our city,

We've given Lake Helen lots of trees. Also, using our new model, we were able to help them buy lots of trees we could never have grown.

What we are trying to do here is encourage property owners to properly place these trees around their homes.

I look for flags. I look for burning smoke. I look for trees wiggling in the wind,

He was instrumental in saving as many ash trees as he could, and just a terrific guy.

I am looking at how trees can be so small and why it happens. I am also learning about the soil.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

If trees go down, it's fine as long as the reason is a naturally caused one. Our real concern is altered water flow from upstream, and hurricanes don't change that one way or another.

If the cell were a forest, we can now pull out individual trees to study them. We are using virtual reality approaches as they are being developed for the computer gaming industry. Nonetheless, what we eventually want to do is to be able to walk into the forest and explore it in that way.

He who plants trees loves others beside himself

Good candidates can arrive at the binary search tree as the right path in a few minutes, and then take 10-15 minutes working through the rest of the problem and the other roadblocks I toss out. But occasionally I get a candidate who 'intuitively understands' trees and can visualize the problem I'm presenting.

There is an absolute commitment from National that there will be less indigenous trees cut down.

The rain keeps constantly raining, And the sky is cold and gray, And the wind in the trees keeps complaining That summer has passed away; --

The rain keeps constantly raining,And the sky is cold and gray,And the wind in the trees keeps complainingThat summer has passed away; --

When they said they wanted to experience it, I thought, 'Come on.... We're gonna show you a real good time!' And they gave me almost a whole day, so they sure did get a lot of ground covered...I don't know how often they have to go 4-wheeling or climb trees to do what they do, but that day, they did. Thank heavens those guys are athletic and have a sense of humor, 'cause we tore it up.

He had a green thumb. He loved to water the plants and cut the flowers. He was so proud of how his trees looked.

He goes to the hole among the trees and gets knocked down a lot. This time he didn't get up.

We're proposing a very simple LNG import terminal. We have an option on an 80-acre (32.4-hectare) piece of land but we would probably use only about 35 acres (14 hectares). We would keep a lot of trees in the front.

My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer.

I was actually looking for my shot early on. Every time I got in the lane I saw trees all around me, so I really couldn't get it up, I had to dish it off.

Little was known about the age of tropical trees, because they do not have easily identified annual growth rings. No one had thought these tropical trees could be so old, or that they grow so slowly.

Logged and hurricane-damaged areas on the range have created some problems with seedling survival. Shrubs, vines and trees have replaced the bare forest floor, and the seedlings must compete with them for light and nutrients which has hindered successful regeneration.