| "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 |
| "There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I dont know what can be done to fix it. This is it Only nut cases want to be president." »Kurt Vonnegut |
| "For an apple you cant reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree wont bend down for you!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." »Thomas Fuller |
| "There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer |
| "Friendship is like a sheltering tree." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm." »Publilius Syrus |
| "From a fallen tree, all make kindling." »Danish proverb |
| "As the twig is bent the tree inclines." »Virgil |
| "Judge a tree from its fruit not from the leaves." »Euripides |
| "A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense." »American Proverb |
| "He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit." »Sir Walter Scott |
| "Biff Tannen So why don't you make like a tree and get outta here" »Back to the Future |
| "If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh." »Patricia Hitchcock |
| "Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." »Charles Dickens |
| "Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on." »Woody Allen |
| "Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground." »Malayan Proverb |
| "People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom." »Peter Ustinov |
| "Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit." »Francis Marion |
| "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time." »Dr. Robert Schuller |
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