Trees Quotes
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
Tags: Difficulty, Late ✍ Author: Douglas AdamsDo not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
Tags: Left, While ✍ Author: George Washington CarverA person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Tags: Honest, Screwed ✍ Author: George Washington CarverIf you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
Tags: Teach, Year ✍ Author: Paulo CoelhoThere are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
Tags: Family, Stories ✍ Author: Henry Louis GatesWhen I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
Tags: Rivers, Run ✍ Author: John White GearyThe goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.
Tags: Apple, Fruit ✍ Author: Helen Hunt JacksonOn 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.
Tags: East, Safety ✍ Author: Jhumpa LahiriIt's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
Tags: Difference, Planting ✍ Author: Wangari MaathaiThey all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.
Tags: Boring, Pretty ✍ Author: James MacArthurI'm not an extreme tree-hugger. I do believe trees grow and are a useful agricultural product that can be harvested without damaging the ecology and wildlife.
Tags: Grow, Useful ✍ Author: John C. MaloneI want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Tags: Cherry, Spring ✍ Author: Pablo NerudaHistorically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
Tags: Street, Valued ✍ Author: Gavin NewsomStreet and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.
Tags: Cities, Street ✍ Author: Gavin NewsomFor years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.
Tags: Big, Work ✍ Author: Nick OffermanInitial feedback we got from people was that Poker could and should be a product in its own right. For us, that was definitely a case of us not seeing the forest for the trees since we are Poker nuts.
Tags: Seeing, Since ✍ Author: Tim PageWhat the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
Tags: Eyes, Stones ✍ Author: ParacelsusYour soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
Tags: Dark, Soul ✍ Author: Marcel ProustSuburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Tags: After, Society ✍ Author: Bill VaughanResearch gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and the environment that come from planting trees and creating new woodland habitat. It's obvious trees are good things.
Tags: Good, Research ✍ Author: Clive AndersonOn the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
Tags: Front, High ✍ Author: Clive AndersonElves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
Tags: Focused, Top ✍ Author: Orlando BloomVisit partners pages
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
Tags: Grow, Love ✍ Author: Joyce CaryI like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Tags: Nature, Seem ✍ Author: Willa CatherI can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.
Tags: Except, Forest ✍ Author: Sloane CrosleyA forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.
Tags: Forest, Spectacle ✍ Author: Alfred DouglasI was amazed at the house that I grew up in; it looks practically identical to the way it was, but I couldn't recognize it because of the size of the trees.
Tags: House, Looks ✍ Author: Jim FowlerIf you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.
Tags: Cut, Matter ✍ Author: Susan GeorgeApril in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
Tags: Holiday, Paris ✍ Author: E. Y. HarburgLike people, trees are all individuals.
✍ Author: David HockneyAustralians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
Tags: Gum, Unique ✍ Author: Harold Edward HoltTrees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Tags: Gardening, Plants ✍ Author: Zora Neale HurstonI have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.
Tags: Fresh, Fruit ✍ Author: Imran KhanIn several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.
Tags: Both, Natural ✍ Author: Charles LyellI prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
Tags: Country, Life ✍ Author: Ziggy MarleyEverything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener.
Tags: Looks, Win ✍ Author: Billy MartinI was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.'
Tags: Point, Thought ✍ Author: Harry NilssonMy days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!
Tags: Days, Dogs ✍ Author: Carre OtisBeing a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
Tags: Climbing, Woman ✍ Author: Frances PerkinsActors cannot go on for over running around the trees.
Tags: Cannot, Running ✍ Author: Rajendra PrasadToo 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.
Tags: May, Words ✍ Author: Vikram SethI love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.
Tags: Love, Old ✍ Author: Gail SimmonsSky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.
Tags: Perfect, Sky ✍ Author: Arthur SmithBut I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
Tags: Jobs, Odd ✍ Author: Elliott SmithIf 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.
Tags: Coolest, Place ✍ Author: Jeremy SumpterOn pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.
Tags: Found, Whole ✍ Author: Mark TobeyI grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.
Tags: Country, Real ✍ Author: Josh TurnerI carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.
Tags: Big, Birds ✍ Author: Peter WeirHow can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?
Tags: Guy, Million ✍ Author: Johnny WeissmullerBut if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.
Tags: Looking, State ✍ Author: Dar Williams