Tree Quotations | Page 6

I saw the spiders marching through the air,Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed dayIn latter August when the hayCame creaking to the barn.

People are coming earlier and earlier for their trees. Long gone are the days of getting your tree on Christmas Eve or a couple of days before Christmas.

Right now, the chamber has one apple ruining the tree and that is bad, ... She got my money for the T-shirts, and she knew she wasn't going to give me the business.

remember an old mans ballsack is like christmas tree ornaments, they are only there for decoration.

Pine Tree outplayed us and was the better team tonight. They were better prepared, and you have to give credit to their coach and kids. The bottom line was that they did a better job than we did.

Recently, I saw firsthand how the Emerald Ash Borer is destroying our vital ash tree resources, ... We appreciate these additional federal dollars, and I will continue to work with the Ohio Department of Agriculture to pursue further funding for 2006.

starting to get 50-, 60-mph winds, and the phones are going in and out. Tell Brett everything's OK. A tree did fall on my aunt's house, which is right by Mom's, but everyone's OK.

That eye wall is coming through, but its pretty moderate here. The only thing I can really see is tree limbs and some palm fronds in the road.

My mom, two brothers, their families, my grandmother, my aunt and my uncle are all in a like a 25-square foot house with no power and a tree on top of it,

My momma was worried about this tree falling on the house.

Look at it from the point of view of the animals that live in your garden. They did not evolve in a tidy landscape, they evolved in a landscape where leaves and branches and whatever fell off the tree and just lay there.

Lithe and long as the serpent train,Springing and clinging from tree to tree,Now darting upward, now down again,With a twist and a twirl that are strange to see.

Lithe and long as the serpent train, Springing and clinging from tree to tree, Now darting upward, now down again, With a twist and a twirl that are strange to see.

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe . . . ?

I was having the tree cut down as a safety factor because it leaned way over the house.

I was in my tree stand sitting on the edge of a cornfield about 6:30 p.m. when two deer walked out,

Just about every old tree in town is down. The town just will never look the same in our lifetime. It breaks my heart. I'm so disgusted. Just about every ancient pecan and a lot of the oaks are gone.

It is entirely fitting that we stand under this survival tree. This tree scarred by disaster, which has yet found a way to persevere. The wounds will never completely heal yet it continues to grow.

He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound..

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Patch backed me into a tree and kissed me, hard. I regained my breath. "Boys take not everywhere: That was a kiss.

She'll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!" Patch grinned, "I can fly.

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.

Something doesn't look right," Vee said. "Is the tire supposed to look like that?" I banged my head against the nearest tree trunk. "So we've got a flat," Vee said. "What now?

Well, (Ann) brought a tree and bought Christmas packages for the whole world, and what she didn't buy, she charged. I'm the only one to lose money at a bowl.

Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.

I was a dork hunter. That's hard to do. I fell out of a tree.

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared

Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

Most likely it was the snow on the power lines, or a tree on the power line.

You'll find out very quickly if they like it. It's not for everyone. I've seen situations where a daddy wants their son to play, and really, there is a battle for that boy to come to practice three times a week. You'll know very quickly if they like it. If his helmet's always on, and he's hitting a tree in the backyard, he likes it.

We were lucky the house wasn't more damaged. My sister's room is back there and it didn't break a single window. We've been asking to get the tree cut down. They were waiting for something - for the ground to harden or something - to cut it down. I guess we waited a little too long.

We played a team up by Hobart that has a grain mill in the outfield, and you have to play around it. Our home field has a maple tree in right field. You just play around it.

You already have every advantage in the world, ... You have spotting scopes, you have night scopes, you have rifles and shells. ... Just walking up and shooting a bear out of a tree from 20 feet away is not a sport.

We are the tropical fruit bowl of Australia. I would say every tree has been flattened. It looks like an atomic bomb has hit the place.

We had to swim underneath the door jams to get outside, where we clung to the gutters. We made our way to the back of the house and clung to the magnolia tree out there.

We've kind of ate, slept and breathed tree farming the last 20 years,

Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.

Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven . . .

Tree and Stone glittered, without shadows.My finger-length grew lucent as glass.I started to bud like a March twig:An arm and a leg, an arm, a leg.From stone to cloud, so I ascended.

We know the quake was about magnitude 7.0, and we know the epicenter was located 32 miles north of Joshua Tree which would put it in the Mojave Desert area in Southern California,

We aren't protesting Home Depot and Wal-Mart, just the (city's) weak ordinance, ... It's criminal. This is (City Planner) Sam Jones' baby. He wrote 27 pages of the tree protection ordinance and this is what we got.

We aren't doing any more residential surveying. There's no more money for tree removal, so it doesn't make sense looking for it if we can't do anything about it.

The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.

The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sunand a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leaftytongues a-whispering all at once. This ages tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale.It has kept its boughs unshattered, and its full complement of leaves, and the whole in perfect verdure,except a single branch, that, by the earlier change with which the elm-tree sometimes prophesies the autumn,had been transmuted to bright gold.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of old growth there and to even attempt to transplant those would have disturbed the roots to the point where the tree would have eventually died.

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration.

Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?

We're not saying stay home, but if you do drive, expect to come across a downed power line, expect to come across a downed tree limb. Stay off the cell phone. Stay alert.

The Pelosi-Durbin announcement was like a tree falling in the forest. Nobody heard it.

The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed.The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

When a tree is down and power is off, whether it's late at night and it's raining, it doesn't matter. You do it.

When a tree gets transplanted, its growth slows down because it's in shock.

We didn't play our best game, and Lone Tree played a fantastic game. They played their butts off, and they got the win.

Tom Morgan with the North Carolina Forest Service got me started back in 1964. He drew up my first plan. From there, he made a lot of suggestions for me to follow. Some I did, and some I did not. Then, Bill Holmes drew up my second plan. He was with Stone Container. Somewhere in this time, I joined the Weyerhaeuser Company Tree Farm Family Program, and they gave me technical advice that was good.

We are going to attack the enemy in the field that could be hidden in tree lines. They could be hidden by buildings. They could be in semi-populated areas, possibly they're harder to find,

Simpson, Homer Simpson/ He's the greatest guy in history/ From the/ Town of Springfield/ He's about to hit a chestnut tree.

The raw wood of a sawed off tree was turned, stripped, and varnished into a traveling violin that could only squeal in carnival colors.

Trees are your best antiques

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

We don't know if the train hit the tree, or the tree hit the train or they hit each other at the same time.

When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.

She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

A forest doesn't weep over one tree.

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.

Plant no tree sooner than the vine.

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.

I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.

The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on.... A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.

When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.

We want this tree to be a sign of peace and reconciliation.

Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him...

I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.

If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.

Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.

How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.

How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.

Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape,

No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.

Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted.

I think a lot of what is involved in finding a noticer is to watch people and see what fruit people have on the tree. You examine that life and see if it has the kind of fruit you want to produce in your life.

If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it; if its fall to the ground didn’t make a sound, would you panic in fear that you didn’t exist, or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?

Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.

I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.”

A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.