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"What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 322. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever. A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree." »Diane Frolov
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"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If you have a lemon, make lemonade." »Howard Gossage
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"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all." »Ogden Nash
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"For mad scientists who keep brains in jars, here's a tip Why not add a slice of lemon to each jar, for freshness." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass." »Henry Seely
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"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing." »Abraham Lincoln
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"He who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many branches and few roots, which the first wind throws down; whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot." »The Talmud
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"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon'" »John F. Kennedy
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"Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose" »Johann von Goethe
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"Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandad' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss" »Nikos Kazantzakis
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"Follow the grain in your own wood." »Howard Thurman
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"'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned." »Immanuel Kant
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"Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost
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"Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ." »Martin Luther
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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost
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"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost." »Dante Alighieri
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"One common origin unites us all, but every sort of wood does not give the perfume of the lignum aloes." »Arabic Proverb
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"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese garlic makes it good." »Alice May Brock
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"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good." »Alice May Brock
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"Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow." »Lydia Maria Child
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"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood." »George Bernard Shaw
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"I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost
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"A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood." »Chinese Proverb
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