Trees Quote by Annie Proulx

Mountain Pine bark beetles need -37°C (-35°F) for three days to freeze to death. Unfortunately, with global warming, that no longer happens in British…

— Mark Leiren-Young

Many parts of a pine tree are edible.

— Euell Gibbons

Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.

— Euell Gibbons

Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough.

— Gary Snyder

“Sifting through the sieve of branches, a dusting of sugar over the cereal of dead leaves. An inch of snow accumulated through the night:…

— Leah Hager Cohen

“Thinking about such things soothed the creature as it dug at the base of a tall oak tree, deep into the ground, covering itself…

— Joe DeRouen

The leaves of these [larch] trees are like those of the pine; timber from them comes in long lengths, is as easily wrought in…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“First, picture the forest. I want you to be its conscience, the eyes in the trees. The trees are columns of slick, brindled bark…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“He approaches a cockroach in only one respect: his coloration is brown. That is all. Apart from this he has a tremendous convex belly…

— Nabokov Vladimir

It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards…

— Henry David Thoreau

This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their rotting hearts…

— Grace Paley

This Forest eats itself and lives forever.

— Barbara Kingsolver