Quotes about Trees

We have three priorities. The first is removal of dead trees along the evacuation routes, the second is clearing around radio communication sites to ensure they'll continue to operate during a fire, and clearing community protection zones or fuel breaks around mountain communities.

Ruth Wenstrom

Ours is a fairly open area with buildings. There are not a lot of trees, which is probably good.

Harry Wadsworth

It's a huge threat. ... If you do nothing, you're going to lose most or all of the hemlock trees.

Tom Remaley

The wind was howling and I was worried about trees falling down. Suddenly, I heard a loud, thud-like boom. When I opened the front door, I saw that a big oak tree had been uprooted and had fallen into the road.

Sheryl Brenner

Here and there you'd see a tree that was budding or grass trying to grow. There was hope.

Carolyn Hunter

I saw the tree on fire, and then all of a sudden the transformer exploded, and as it exploded the light was just all over the sky. Then there was more fire, and then the utility poles started snapping off. The wires were coming down. I thought I was going to die. I was outside, and the wires were coming down everywhere and all the sparks and fire. I started to run like hell.

Marcia Rogers

The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree.

Sidonie Gabrielle

Managers at the Colville National Forest seem more interested in selling trees than managing the forest.Managers of every national forest are mandated to perform an "ecosystem inventory" every 10 years to document the number and type of trees in their forests. It's an involved procedure that's planned and budgeted for years in advance. And without it, managers can't be sure that the.

Cynthia Reichelt

SCARABEE, n. The same as scarabaeus. He fell by his own hand Beneath the great oak tree. He'd traveled in a foreign land. He tried to make her understand The dance that's called the Saraband, But he called it Scarabee. He had called it so through an afternoon, And she, the light of his harem if so might be, Had smiled and said.

Ambrose Bierce

We met with Mr. Metzger and identified the problems. He has done some voluntary stream restoration and has planted several dozen trees to provide shading and safeguard the habitat.

Robert Dunbar

There have been a lot of people behind the scenes working on dinners, staging flowers and flags. They're also having trees come in, they're going to have a tree representing each campus, and then there's going to be a grove somewhere on the campus where the trees will be planted.

Bill Bradford

These efforts are intended to prove they [the students] are the best and brightest in their fields [and] to gain scholarships and recognition from some of the country's top landscape, lawn care and tree care firms and related companies.

Phil Allen

They can destroy the biodiversity of the natural environment. They'll form a stand and all of the other native species, all of the ground cover and the trees, are shaded out and out-competed for food and water.

Dennis Teague

We put a lot of emphasis on it. There are so many benefits to having trees.

Craig Kelly

The only freezing was before Christmas. Farmers like to see 14 days of really cold weather to help trees set a good bloom. A good bloom leads to a good crop.

Steve Hunter

I had a chip shot against the tree. I hit a nine-foot slider. I needed that putt.

Alex Laughlin

One Tree Hill: The Complete Second Season.

Chad Michael Murray

Most trees and grasses require four to six hours of sun a day to thrive.

Rose Baglia

A tree has also fallen across the road and on top of a car by Kitchener and Lancaster streets in Kensington, though there were no injuries.

Wayne Minnaar

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

Terry Pratchett

They were coming back from a casino, hit some kind of water on the road. The car hydroplaned, went down a high embankment and they hit a tree. I guess if Brad hadn't been wearing his seatbelt, he'd probably be dead now.

Todd Harrell

IT is pleasing to frequent the places from which the feet of those whom this world calls great have passed away, to see the same groves and streams that they saw, to hear the same sabbath bells, to linger beneath the roof under which they lived, and be shaded by the same tree which shaded them.

Jones Very

And the winner is. Christian Carmona for Winding Trees.

Adam Brody

It went up like a Christmas tree. I was trying to put it out with a bottle of water. I turned around and the building was engulfed. My sound man is injured. I'm on my way to the hospital. I'm missing my guitar player.

Jack Russell

My first year as president I went around and asked what Marist had to work on. He said, 'He who whispers down a well about the things he has to sell will never have as many dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers.' I never forgot that.

Dennis Murray

It's great to be able to move these big trees in with nothing else around. They are all handpicked ... the 'Cadillac' of trees.

Dean Norton

It's not enough to put a fence around the land. We need landowners to go out and do things, restore habitat, plant buffers around streams -- trees, native vegetation.

Robert Bonnie

We did have a tree snap that hit our house and knocked a few shingles and tore our gutter down, but I wouldn't consider that damage, relatively speaking.

Joey Kern

I would like to see them go out, clean up the trees. I understand they can't do all of them just ones that they're aware of that are pretty evident that could cause a problem like this, so this doesn't have to happen to somebody else.

Debbie Spillane

As the water makes its way down into the valley, that's why we make sure the creeks and streams are cleared of debris. Our crews are out inspecting areas right now in preparation for the weekend and they're always on call if a tree goes down and causes a blockage. They're out to take it out.

Jim Mccann

Maybe near the banyan trees. Somewhere downtown. We don't really have anything for the kids to do down there.

John Bryan

Pine is generally not an important allergen although it puts out tremendous amounts of pollen, ... but at the same time that pine trees are pollinating, oaks are pollinating.

Keith Phillips

Don't buy trees with fruit on them. Pick the fruit off as it appears. Don't let it produce the first two or three years and when it gets to be three or four years old, it'll produce heavily.

Stuart Gauthier

There's no cure for it. All we can do is cut down the infected trees and hope it doesn't spread.

Ron Hamel

They are amazing. This migration is amazing. The whole system has to stay intact, not just the fir trees in Mexico, to preserve these treasures.

Sue Clark

Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener.

Billy Martin

It interested me much afterwards to find that these climbing trees do not form any particular family.

Henry Walter Bates

It's unique in that it is around a stream and trees.

Charles Braun

I always know when she's been up in a tree. She has a look on her face like she's transcended the earth for a bit.

Nancy Cole

AGITATOR, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

Ambrose Bierce

This woman was chronically sick and her family called us for help during the storm, but we couldn't put a vehicle on the roads, ... After the winds died down, there was no way to get to her because Highway 15 where she lived was blocked by fallen trees.

Jimmy White

This is an invalid ordinance. Everything is fruit of the poisonous tree.

Charles Boggs

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan Pearsall Smith

It was the most awful construction project I've ever been involved with. It wasn't a swamp, but the land was wet. It had a huge amount of trees and grass. For years the vegetation had fallen into the water and rotted, forming a tremendous amount of organic matter.

Vernon Kelly

Several businesses are totally destroyed. Trees literally are sitting inside of houses.

John Oxendine

Doves build practically the worst nests of any bird there is. They put a few sticks in the branch of a tree and that's it. It's horrible.

Doug Bowman

The person that was skiing was actually able to get themselves up onto a tree and keep themselves above the snow so that person was unharmed. The second person, a female, was caught in the avalanche.

Brendan Mcdermott

[• Her room posters : Orlando Bloom, the guy in] Lord of the Rings, ... One Tree Hill.

Chad Michael Murray

The college planted a tree in Greg's memory and put in a meditation garden in his honor.

Debra Reeves

She's long-haired, she's got long, gray hair, with black and silver. She looks like a willow tree, and like a little skunk. She's beautiful.

Leticia Hill

It's in the contract that they did not want to have the fig tree removed.

Marilyn Cook

TROGLODYTE, n. Specifically, a cave-dweller of the paleolithic period, after the Tree and before the Flat. A famous community of troglodytes dwelt with David in the Cave of Adullam. The colony consisted of 'every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented' -- in brief, all the Socialists of Judah.

Ambrose Bierce

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.

James Douglas

But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree.

Bible

I love the growth and expansion. What I don't want to see is more trees popping up in memory of someone (at an accident site). It gets dangerous when you try to put city traffic on a country road that amounts to a little more than a goat trail.

Tim Norman

They can take their students out and not just talk about it in a classroom, they can go out and actually work with the plants and the shrubs and the trees.

Jerry Baker

The hotel, I don't think, actually had any physical damage. The (hotel) sign was torn down and trees everywhere were torn down.

Leslie Pixley

This week, the pine trees are very tall and when it's windy, we can see it when we hit the ball. Conditions are good. But it's more softer and better than last week. Last week was very hard greens.

K.j. Choi

Our kids are tired. They're out having to cut trees and fix fences. You can tell their minds are somewhere else. It's not a normal football mentality.

Bradley Morgan

Most people don't realize that we have mosquitoes year-round. The winter varieties, known as tree stump mosquitoes, lay eggs in tree stumps that then fill with water. But this year they aren't limited to finding water pools inside rotting stumps. They can be anywhere with all this rain.

Randy Phillips

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Certain things like the shrubbery, large trees, have a value. And if a large tree is knocked down, then if you can find a horticulturist or arborist who will come out and place a value on that tree, you may be able to get a deduction.

Alan Webb

One of the things is to break stereotypes of what an environmentalist is. When I was growing up it was seen as weird, tree huggers.

Tony Hale

We have not really begun harvesting, so much of the crop is still on the trees, which obviously is a concern for growers.

Casey Pace

This project really shows the importance of the world's biota and especially trees on the climate system.

Todd Dawson

Sometimes we get lost in seeing the entire forest for the particular trees, but I think we need to pull back and see that this threat of radical terrorists is now being directed not only at us in the homeland, but it is being directed at a source of energy upon which the western industrialized world has become dependent.

Bill Nelson

All you could see was the blue roofs with tarps over them. At a gated community down the road from us, you used to not be able to see any houses because of all the trees. There weren't any trees left.

Nicole Busby

With the trees, the mistake has to be left off the tee. And that brings the water into play. You used to be able to miss right and even run your ball up. Now, you can't. You have to fly it there.

Stephen Ames

People are reluctant to replace all the trees. There's a concern about the cost that's involved.

Bob Grossman

It takes time to get foundations established, but you can't grow an oak tree without planting an acorn.

Kirk Hayes

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

This bill is like cutting down the tree with the bald eagle's nest in it when you could have just trimmed the branches, ... It proposes unreasonable solutions to reasonable concerns.

Rick Larsen

Organizations would do well to build decision trees and develop workflow processes to handle probable escalations or situations likely to occur based on previous customer interactions.

Leslie Ament

The shortfall in precipitation is not boding well for a good fall foliage display. The trees have been unable to manufacture the large quantities of nutrients necessary to produce the nice, brilliant colors we hope for.

Jerry Stenger

There's a red leaf that falls from a purple tree it falls it floats down One red leaf against a clear blue sky it floats down Past the marble in the lobby and the geese in flight To the darkening river in the autumn light Where it touches down O like a great bird landing.

Jane Siberry

You sometimes lost track of what the long-term view of Arrowhead would look like. When you're in the middle of the forest chopping trees down, it's hard to get a perspective of what the whole forest looks like. It's succeeded beyond, certainly, my expectations.

George Renner

History is like a constantly changing tree.

David Irving

The tree-hugging Tolkien freaks, once they get around to seeing the movie and reading the books, tend to go on to read other things that he did. In 1936 he gave a British Academy lecture called Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, which is still one of the most fabulous things that's been written.

Andy Orchard

It boggles my mind that someone can see life breathed into a baby, watch the grass die and then come to life again, see leaves fall and watch the rebirth of a tree, or gaze on any of the majestic splendor that is this earth and not be overpowered by the presence of an Almighty God!

Bill Mccartney

We also recommended they request some larger bulldozers than they have so that they can push the larger trees already on the ground to be able to get around those forests if there is a fire.

Rick Dolan

They're highly maneuverable and efficient. You just whip around trees. You don't have to make multiple passes or use a weed whacker. It's safer because you have great visibility, and it's fun.

Mike Ferrara

Typically around this time of year we're already starting to harvest, but because of the hurricane impact last year and the stress on the trees, our crop is going to be later, about a month later, so Wilma would not be good news for us.

Casey Pace

What's the point of that one? I chose tree. I'm a nature kind of guy.

Ben Obomanu

It's when a fruit is growing on a tree and a twig or leaf brushes against the fruit as it's maturing and leaves this mark. It's a characteristic of a lot of oranges you never see.

William North

They can then go and plant these trees anywhere they desire.

Kathy Quinn

I would call him so many times. He would talk me out of the tree, so to speak.

Lisa Reading

In the six months at sea we never saw a tree or land.

Leo Latlip

[The APT's Colleen Madden, who played all of the characters in] The Syringa Tree, ... I want to work with him forever. I have worked with many, many wonderful directors. I put him in the top three.

Michael Wright

It's like you're caught naked hanging from a tree branch with the wind blowing.

Matt Leblanc

These things are tools. Is a chainsaw a good thing or a bad thing? If you're cutting down a stand of trees, it's a good thing. If you accidentally chop off your finger, it's a bad thing.

Bob Walters

It is heartbreaking to hear your animal like that. Normally, the cat will come down on his own if you leave tuna or a can of food at the base of the tree.

Linda Catalano

Evan jumped down, I climbed down the tree cause I wasn't going to jump.

Jake Eakin

[Keith Powell and Chris Eger, Pascagoula animal control officers, waded toward their father-in-law's home, dragging a canoe with two shotguns (for killing snakes and possibly alligators) and a cold, wet dog.] He was perched in a tree, halfway in the water, ... He was struggling to hold on when we found him.

Keith Powell

We've had four confirmed fatalities that are storm- related, and right now we're beginning a damage assessment. We have a lot of debris, downed trees, and approximately half a million homes are without power.

Judy Sarver

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

Hannah Moore

For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.

Sir Thomas Malory

My affinity for trees as a material seems to come from a childhood spent wandering the forest around Southern Pines - a place with thick underbrush and many intersecting lines evident in the bare winter branches of trees.

Patrick Dougherty

We think of it as a ladder effect, and the fire can quickly move up into the crowns of the trees. That's when the wildfires move really fast.

Robert Shaffer

We need to manage the things that are exceptionally flammable -- dead leaves that collect in your yard, especially around your homes, have a tendency to do that. Get rid of those. Get rid of downed branches (and) downed trees that you might have.

Terry Lawson

He's a fabulous young talent, but he didn't just fall off a tree. He was built, not born.

Rodger Schmidt