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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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"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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"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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"The Sun after the rain is much beautiful than the Sun before the rain!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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"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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"If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain." »Dolly Parton
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"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain." »Dolly Parton
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"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet." »Bob Dylan
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"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." »Dolly Parton
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"Some people walk in the rain… others just get wet…" »Roger Miller
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"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up the rain." »Dolly Parton
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"He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain." »Chinese Proverb
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"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain." »Dolly Parton
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"If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." »Dolly Parton
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"The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain." »Dolly Parton
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"There is no rain beyond the clouds; there is no humanity beyond the compassion!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance." »Yiddish Proverb
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"rain makes the sun shine brighter." »Kathy Ann Jensen
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"If you want to have the rainbow, Then sometimes you're gonna have to deal with the rain." »Unknown
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"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow." »Jerry Chin
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"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain." »William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 3
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"I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"We can be honest without saying what we mean to say, we can talk about the weather while ignoring the rain." »Danielle Donoho
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"We like rain if the sun comes after it; we like night if the day comes after it; we like everything conditionally! We are conditional people!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore." »W. Somerset Maugham
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