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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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""The longest mile I ever ran was the mile I ran with cedar Fever!"" »Charles Lauller
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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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"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil." »Truman Capote
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"A 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere." »Joyce A. Myers
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"All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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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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"The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success." »Robert Benchley
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"Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer." »Carl Sandburg
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"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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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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"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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"Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late." »Unknown
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"When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"When I feel bad, I work. When I have problems, when I'm depressed, when I'm bored with life, I sit down to my work. There are probably other prescriptions, but I don't know them. Or they don't work for me. You want my advice -- here it is Go and work. Thank God that people like you and me need only paper and pencil to work." »Strugatsky
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"Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade." »Persian Proverb
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"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." »Thomas Fuller
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"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" (poem), 1914
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"Friendship is like a sheltering tree." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm." »Publilius Syrus
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"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." »Charles Dickens
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"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer
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"There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh." »Patricia Hitchcock
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"Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'" »Russell Long
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"A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense." »American Proverb
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