Nelson Henderson Quotes
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.
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For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.
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When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,' because they see it not just for the word 'broccoli.' They see it for what it looks like, the image. We, as adults, forget to think like that. We forget to think figuratively and have to be reminded.
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What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.
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There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.
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When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.
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I have a lot of love for nature, trees, animals and greenery, and I feel that if I did not exist, there'd be no greenery on the face of the earth.
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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
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When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.
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I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.
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The Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail is unlike any other performance venue in the world, set with mountains and trees as a backdrop.
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The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.
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Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.
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A lot of times we can get trees out without scarring other trees.
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I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
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There is no one who's gonna be sitting on that stage who has the record of job creation I have. There's one in particular who's created jobs all around the world. While he was the governor of Massachusetts he didn't create many jobs.
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
