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“I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it's a healthy outlet for them. If they weren't covering their lawns with twinkling ...”
“I'm still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can't do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn't compute - it's not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside.”
“Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.”
“To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the bough...”
“I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
“Spring beckons! All things to the call respond the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. ”
“The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ash...”
“The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.”
“Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.”
“Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.”
“Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.”
“I know more about wheat and olive trees than I do about politics.”
“When I was about ten, I was very impressed by the way Tarzan could swing through the trees from vine to vine. No one ever told me, 'Don't try this at home.'”
“On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.”
“If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.”
“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.”
“In New York, when a tree dies, nobody mourns that it was cut down in its prime. Nobody counts the rings, notifies the loved ones. There are other trees. We can always squeeze in one more. Mind the ...”
“Trees are obviously a lot less mobile than, say, trogonstropical birds common in Manor even ticks. But in a cloud forest, trees structure the ecosystem, much as corals structure a reef. Certain typ...”
“Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929”
“Johanna bent her head far back to look up into the leafy canopy and the rainy sky. There was a cautious wonder on her face. She said something in Kiowa in a low voice. So much water, such giant tre...”
