| "It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be." »Benjamin Johnson |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak." »William Shakespeare |
| "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 |
| "In creating, the only hard thing is to begin a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak." »James Russell Lowell |
| "Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow." »Alice Mackenzie Swaim |
| "Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." »William Congreve |
| "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 |
| "And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth." »Native American Prayer |
| "Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast." »William Congreve |
| "A wise old owl sat upon an oak The more he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the more he heard Why aren't we like that wise old bird" »Edward Hersey Richards |
| "Friendship is like a sheltering tree." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "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 |
| "One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." »Thomas Fuller |
| "A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense." »American Proverb |
| "You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm." »Publilius Syrus |
| "Judge a tree from its fruit not from the leaves." »Euripides |
| "As the twig is bent the tree inclines." »Virgil |
| "From a fallen tree, all make kindling." »Danish proverb |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
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