Trees Quotations | Page 5

The Indian fig trees sent down from every branch suckers, like smooth strings, which rooted themselves in the ground to draw up more water.

The ground has really been soaked because of the rain. The trees were sliding down upright with the mud.

The ground is just not holding the trees up,

The drug dealers with the grow-ops in the area come to steal my soil. They want to destroy my trees and take my soil. They even sneak around the bushes. The city told me to keep doing what I'm doing.

The course was a living, changing thing, because every year he'd want to plant more trees or build another lake. One year, he thought one of the holes was too easy, so he put another sand trap in the spot where everyone was playing.

The county needs to educate the public and come up with better recommendations for what types of trees should be planted.

The girls were fascinated to learn how many inventions and technological advancements came from ancient China. The development of writing, the process of printing, and the production of paper from trees all originated in ancient China. Gunpowder, the umbrella and the compass are just a few examples of things that were invented.

The headaches and fatigue are normal. We are attempting to hide from the heat under trees and in tents during the daytime. At night, our activities will continue.

You can spend a lot of money, maybe $75,000 to $100,000 for a full rehabilitation, but you end up with a close-in neighborhood, mature trees and no commute.

The folks up in New England are very concerned about it interfering with sugar production. We're concerned about it because it's threat to street trees, trees in the forest and so forth.

The flooding killed a whole lot more trees than the wind killed.

Also you want to look at trees that are native to our climate. You know you might have seen shows on TV that show some really cool trees, but if they are not natural to our environment... you might not have as much luck with them.

The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

The city is not receiving compensation for the other 5,472 protected trees (at Home Depot and Wal-Mart), the ordinance was supposed to be stronger but the commissioners made it weaker instead,

The conditions were awesome this year because Vail opened to full-on winter skiing. We were riding in the trees on the first day. They were filled in pretty quickly and that's rare." ()

The hotel, I don't think, actually had any physical damage. The (hotel) sign was torn down and trees everywhere were torn down.

The damage starts on the trees at the outside of the grove and the exposed fruit at the top of the trees. We're hearing now that damage is getting further into the grove. Consecutive nights of cold weather weakens the fruit.

You could hear the gusts coming before you felt them and the trees popping like a series of firecrackers ? as they snapped, ... It was a scary feeling, like you'd get from skydiving except it lasted for hours.

You could stand there and pick out which one was going to fall next. Someone told me that they lost 238 trees there.

This is my third year coming to this event and I can't believe I won. I will use it for trees in my yard.

These items were huge, 7 to 8 feet tall. They tore the head right off of some of the reindeer, and tore the lights so hard off the trees they pulled them right out of the socket.

And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.

And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come,To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home;When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still,And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill,The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore,And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.

And palm trees. I missed those. Maybe I'll do palm trees next.

Forests shouldn't exist. The trees in the middle of the forest don't get enough light or nutrients to survive.

It's just a passion, the most fun you can have with your clothes on. Would you rather be stuck in a car in gridlock traffic or swinging through trees like Tarzan?

It's been rough here down on the ranch, about the driest I've seen it since I moved down here seven years ago. It's rough on the trees. All the pine trees we've been planting are just turning brown.

A community, and its citizens, that recognizes these benefits and provides needed care for its trees deserve recognition and thanks.

Foote is a very interesting kid. His idea of fun on a Saturday is digging a ditch, cutting down trees and splitting wood. He's a quiet kid, but we have to be careful with him at practice because he'll hurt himself with his conditioning. He's a team leader.

It's on the Black Sea. It was a traditional summer resort for the old Soviet Union. It's at the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. In one of the pictures in the bid you see palm trees and snow. The city is in the 50s in the winter and then you have better snow there than in Turin.

For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.

There's a mass of mud and trees and rocks out there on the roadway.

It's not just an issue of the trees. The removal of the trees is part of the overall plan to reinvigorate the park.

It's unbelievable. All these big oak trees are just uprooted, everything is brown and the waterline is up to 7 feet on the house. It's like somebody dropped a nuclear weapon and just killed everything. There's not any sign of life. There's no greenery. It's bizarre. It's the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life.

It's not that bad. I'm not saying I'd like to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely.

It reminds me of being up north. I've never seen the trees bare like this.

Everyone's first concern is always the grass or their crops, but trees can suffer too.

The number went down because a lot of cities brought programs to the public where they picked trees up for recycling.

Ecologists have debated for decades over whether there is something of ecological value to species diversity. We found that in forests throughout the New and Old World tropics, older trees are more diverse than younger ones. In other words, diversity is actually selected for as each of the forests matures. This means diversity does indeed matter and is an essential property of these complex ecosystems.

Ecologists have debated for decades whether there is ecological value to species diversity. We found that in forests throughout the New and Old World tropics, older trees are more diverse than younger ones. In other words, diversity is actually selected for as each of the forests matures. This means diversity does indeed matter and is an essential property of these complex ecosystems.

Eighty percent of the street trees in Paris are London plane trees.

It?s mostly a creeping fire. A slow-burning, not-very-hot fire, but I?m sure there are trees that are being scorched as well.

There was no place for an elderly person to sit down and no trees for birds to land. There's little if any public art. It's a depressing sort of sensation.

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 may go out to a stream, a natural area, and they would have specific questions asked. They may ask them to evaluate the aquatic health of a stream or what species of trees in the area.

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

A lot of times we can get trees out without scarring other trees.

They don't have the root system to pull them through. Trees and shrubs and older plants can push out new growth after the primary growth has been killed off, but shallow rooted plants can't.

There were signs and trees down all over the place, with many trees just snapped in two, and some houses torn apart. Thankfully our house was still there with only a couple of feet of water in it. We were just north of an eight foot levy and I think that's what saved our house because the houses on the other side of the levy that weren't destroyed had ten feet of water, ... In all, six houses in our family were affected. But we had the least damage. We were very fortunate.

There were trees down from one end of the town to the other, ... Every street was covered with trees.

It's easier to keep living trees in the ecosystem.

There's been some that have torn things up and up and left. Every industry has those poor type of performers. We producers that are actively in White County all the time try our best to protect the roads. I do a lot of timber work for a lot of landowners and have for a long time, and I don't want to see us leave White County because we can't work, especially for landowners that have planted trees as a future for their kids.

It's at their own peril. They are in a canker-laden area and there is also greening in South Florida. There are other kinds of fruit trees they could invest in that don't have these diseases.

It?s just like being in the woods. You know when you can hear the leaves on the trees blowing? That?s how quiet it is here.

It's a situation that normally healthy trees were blown down, leaving debris there rotting. Instead of the normal tree branches, we now have trees on the ground.

We spent 30 years waiting for them to widen Lacey Road and now we are going to spend another 30 years waiting for our trees to grow back,

When all the world is young, lad, / And all the trees are green; / And every goose a swan, lad / And every lass a queen; / Then hey for boot and horse, lad, / And round the world away: / Young blood must have its course, lad,/ And every dog his day.

We try to be very generous with the customers when we do that. We try to provide them with trees elsewhere in their yard that will provide them with the benefits they want.

We had such a thick amount of ice on the trees this time. Last time, it seemed like there was more ice on the road, versus the trees. This time, it looked like more ice on the trees, versus the road.

We chose the Arkansas River because it is so habitable there is so much human activity. Also, there is no screen of trees to block the view of the river and there are high banks,

We helped Larry plant well over 400 trees. Most of those trees were part of a riparian project.

It's a beautiful forest, very unique. We need more places like this, not less. Maybe if we manage the rest of the forest to develop future old growth, we can cut these trees in 150 or 200 years. But not now.

It is the biggest of all the trees we got.

It is sad to see something so big and so old go. There are so many beautiful trees in this neighborhood and you hate to see one of them go down.

It's a catch-22 that has resulted in farm foresters right around Australia selling their mature plantation trees to sawmills for a pittance in stumpage returns.

It's a very simple program. Just dropping off the trees and they can be reused.

It will be a relatively orderly soft landing. At some point, trees cannot grow to the sky and neither can home sales.

It was as miserable and ugly a four-wheeler trip as you could take. They took something that was functional for users and reasonably decent looking and turned it into an unusable mess of trees scattered everywhere.

It was a shock to see the total devastation, just an unbelievable thing to see people's clothes hanging out of trees cars turned upside down.

This week, the pine trees are very tall and when it's windy, we can see it when we hit the ball. Conditions are good. But it's more softer and better than last week. Last week was very hard greens.

To assume that managing sockeye is like counting trees on a hillside is erroneous and based on a failure to understand what is really happening here,

A brave man who climbs trees is food for their roots

There's almost always clues given. Trees don't just fall down. There's something that's gone wrong,

There were a couple of developmental-level drawings with ash trees proposed, but we had our design associates choose different shade trees for the project.

There were hardly any sports for girls when I was growing up, but I loved to race the guys and climb trees and all that sort of stuff.

There were no lines of communication, and in her neighborhood all the trees were down and there was no way out of the neighborhood. Finally they got a group of people to cut the trees away and push them into the ditch so everybody could get out.

There were numerous counts of lines down and trees into power lines during the weekend. When an entire pole comes down, especially one with this many lines on it, it becomes a multifaceted job that runs into a lot of time.

They're out having to cut trees and fix fences. You can tell their minds are somewhere else. It's not a normal football mentality.

They're going to temporarily put a halt to removing those trees so we can have an opportunity to look at it and see if we can save the trees and the hawks,

I believed then - in a deep, easy way that is impossible for me as an adult - that there was more to this world than meets the eye. Trees had spirits; the wind spoke. If you followed a toad or a raven deep into the heart of the forest, they were sure to lead you to something magical.

I climbed a hill as light fell short, / And rooks came home in scramble sort, / And filled the trees and flapped and fought / And sang themselves to sleep.

I'd love to build in the feeling of early San Antonio, which was an oasis, which was why everybody came here. Urbanization has to some degree wiped that out ... we've been cutting trees and putting cement everywhere we can since then.

How we hated when they tore down the beautiful Spanish Colonial-style courthouse. It had palm trees around it. There were two fish ponds with fountains in them. I guess they called it progress.

I'd go to a timber sale before it was cut and walk around, then I'd go back and see what happened to the beautiful forest, and it was completely trashed. All the big trees were cut and the ground was ripped up by tractors. It looked like a war zone.

I felt safe in the hospital, ... trees everywhere, power lines everywhere. The buildings we could see were devastated. It was unreal driving through it. And we saw people and we didn't know if they were going to help us or if they were going to carjack us.

I can picture guys sitting out in their yard, working in their yard, bending over to plant some trees or something, and half their crack shows, ... I mean, that's kind of one of the things that drew me into the song. The song talks about things that I grew up experiencing.

I don't think anyone can possibly imagine the impact these hurricanes have had on the region and on production agriculture unless they see it firsthand, ... We saw fields flattened by winds and inundated by salt water. We heard accounts of homes swept from their foundations and we saw trees broken like toothpicks. Of course, the full story can only be told by those whose lives and livelihoods have been forever altered by these storms.

He's not a hermit, and he doesn't hide behind trees or anything, He's been rather active in the community. The largest charity fundraiser in South Florida is the Naples Winter Wine Festival. He's a director of that.

I do mostly Southern landscapes. I do beautiful old barns that are falling down, and beautiful trees reflecting in the water. My lovely wife Dorothy and I travel quite a bit, so I take pictures of different things that inspire me to come home, when I come home here in North Carolina, into my art studio and paint these things.

For the life of me, I don't know how they missed the two palm trees and went through my fence.

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.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

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

From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo

An angle people don't always think of, is the economic and environmental damage the reservoir is already doing. Landowners don't know whether to build barns, fences, houses that might be inundated, whether to plant trees that might never be harvested. So they're not maximizing the economic use of the land. They don't know whether they'll be able to leave their family ranch to their children, so their children must try and plan their lives with a huge uncertainty. Some people have already clear-cut land because they're afraid they won't get the value of their trees if their land is condemned.

The memories of my family outings are still a source of strength to me. I remember we'd all pile into the car---I forget what kind it was---and drive and drive. I'm not sure where we'd go, but I think there were some trees there. The smell of something was strong in the air as we played whatever sport we played. I remember a bigger, older guy we called 'Dad.' We'd eat some stuff, or not, and then I think we went home. I guess some things never leave you.

All of the outages were related to winds. In some areas, the ground was so saturated that the wind knocked trees over.

And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.