And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust… — Bible Copy Share Image
“A sweet gum tree is the chameleon of wood, it’s corky exterior hiding it’s inner ability to imitate anything from cherry to… — Katherine Allred Copy Share Image
People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Many people associate bonsai trees with inner peace, serenity and contentment, and while its true that most of the people who successfully… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Johnny and Marissa, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes love, then comes marriage. Then comes an abrupt, tragic miscarriage. Then comes… — Kris Wilson Copy Share Image
It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ...… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
“All well and good, but for our purposes these otherwise-valuable insights are mere subplots almost designed to carry us down side trails… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have to shake my head at how much work it can take to track down a handful of food. Perfect… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you have to walk out on a limb, knowing you could fall thirty feet to the hard ground, just to see… — Kandi Steiner Copy Share Image
Just the whole thing of getting up in the morning - I love the sunshine, I love the palm trees. I'm that… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Peter measures you for your tree as carefully as for a suit of clothes: the only difference being that the clothes are… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Even if we planted a tree on every square yard available in the planet by the end of the century we would… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
“Often I walked in the neighboring forest of fir and pine, whose beauties, wonderful winter solitudes, seemed to protect me from the… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“I allow myself to be right here, in the moment, savouring the peace. All the millions and millions of stars remind me,… — Sarah Crossan Copy Share Image
Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
My friend Jonathan had a great tree house. It was awesome. It was like a big fort up in this tall magnolia… — Eric Ladin Copy Share Image
“They dump their bulky backpacks, weighed down with tools, food, poisonous chemicals, plastic piping, and tents, and begin cutting trees and clearing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The only difference between nature and grace is this, that what the trees and the flowers do unconsciously, as they drink in… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“A block or two west of the new City of Man in Turtle Bay there is an old willow tree that presides… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
The ideal job letter starts with a brilliant light. Then we realize that this brilliant light is actually sunlight, shafts of it,… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
The state mankind are in today, is the direct inheritance of the fruits from the 'Tree of Knowledge' of Good and Evil;… — Geraldine Vermaak Copy Share Image
“When you discover a beautiful tree with beautiful fruits, stop and pick the fruits, but don’t remain there, continue your walking till… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“In a designed economy there would be no trees, or certainly no very tall trees: no forests, no canopy. Trees are a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“IT IS STARTLING to think that all Europe once looked like this Puszcza. To enter it is to realize that most of… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
“Some species of trees spread root systems underground that interconnect the individual trunks and weave the individual trees into a more stable… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed.… — Koji Nakanishi Copy Share Image
In the military it was camouflage for the desert or the winter. And now it's the duck hunting colors - I think… — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
“In the moonlight David saw that Thoresby had become very peculiar indeed. Figs nestled among the leaves of beech-trees. Elder-trees were bowed… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“I take the long way home and circle the neighborhood. The leaves have started to fall and collect in small heaps under… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
