| "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 |
| "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 |
| "California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange." »Fred Allen |
| "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 |
| "Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast." »Douglas Adams |
| "Jingshen is the mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die." »James L. Hayes |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Stuart Would ya look at the size of that kid's head It's the size of a planetoid and it has it's own weather system Looks like an orange on a toothpick I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik spherical but quite pointy at parts He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow." »So I Married an Axe Murderer |
| "Friendship is like a sheltering tree." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." »Thomas Fuller |
| "I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer |
| "There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "From a fallen tree, all make kindling." »Danish proverb |
| "You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm." »Publilius Syrus |
| "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 |
| "Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh." »Patricia Hitchcock |
| "Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." »Charles Dickens |
| "Biff Tannen So why don't you make like a tree and get outta here" »Back to the Future |
| "Frank It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the orange Bowl on New Year's Day." »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad |
| "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "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 |
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