Trees Quotes
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
Jacky Ickx -
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
Dan Fogelberg
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There is nothing so striking to the eye on a return to England from the Continent as the stateliness of our trees. I do not know of any trees in Europe to compare with ours.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.
Gavin Newsom -
April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
E. Y. Harburg -
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
Hamlin Garland -
I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.
Ian Frazier -
People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees
Kishore Kumar
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All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.
Donald Miller -
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
Earl Warren -
Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
Felix Dennis -
I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
Taylor Negron -
As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
Felix Baumgartner -
Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
Frances Perkins
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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.
Wangari Maathai -
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.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.
Wangari Maathai -
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
Gaston Bachelard -
Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
Natalie Jeremijenko -
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
Walt Whitman
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
Zac Goldsmith -
We want all these trees to grow straight and live long. This is a good day.
J. M. Roberts -
I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.
Kate Christensen -
The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.
Robert Frost