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“I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.”

Ifs Tree Painting Replaced Plugs Bulbs Burn Out Christmas Tree Christmas Love Rigs

Author:David Lynch

“Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.”

Done Water Nature Talking Environment Tree Havens Plant Holes Natural Environment Plant A Tree Tree Planting

Author:Wangari Maathai

“It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.”

Littles Differences Tree Citizens Little Things

Author:Wangari Maathai

“That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.”

Way Want Beautiful Tree Flower Red Plant Celebrate Flames Indigenous Plant A Tree

Author:Wangari Maathai

“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.”

Ifs Looks Reason Problem Would Be Able Moving Causes Tree Majors Roots Overcoming Tendencies Symptoms Root Cause

Author:Wangari Maathai

“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.”

Needs Firsts Deals Issues Tree Areas Response Innocent Rural Areas

Author:Wangari Maathai

“They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.”

Hands Tree Scene Boring Beach Palms Palm Trees

Author:James MacArthur

“The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.”

Life Inspirational Matter Play Tree Plant Chess Ice Treatment Cream Grandchildren Ice Cream Slides Good God Plant A Tree Cones Trombone Ice Cream Cones

Author:Ray Manzarek

“I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.”

Believe Alive Tree Don't Believe Granted Yards

Author:Ziggy Marley

“What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.”

Thinking Knows Trying Kind War Left Bits Tree Land Waste Bird Emptiness Starks Scenery Waste Land

Author:George Martin

“What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.”

Inspirational Inspiration Purpose Tree Tiny Giants Shade

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.”

Ifs Way Needs Mean Care Dies Tree Planets Couple Saved Saving Elephants Floating Really Mean Squirrels Save The Planet

Author:Dave Matthews

“Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.”

Humor Funny Faces Fun Sports Tree Having Fun Your Face Knocking Skis Skiing Skiers Ski Racing Outdoor Life

Author:Dave Barry

“Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.”

Ifs Christian Religion House Tree Promise Jew Woods Chosen Guests House Guests

Author:Karl Barth

“By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.”

World Feels Whole Seems Spirituality Reading Music Fire Tree Feet Sky Pure Glory Blue Green Deeper Scripture Whole World Glory Of God Reading The Scriptures

Author:Thomas Merton

“Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.”

Way Looks Moments Beautiful Order Strong Grows Enjoy Tree Produce Goes On Roots Plant A Tree Deep Roots Beautiful Trees Strong Roots

Author:Joyce Meyer

“The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.”

Tree Stuck Apples Doomed Apple Trees Tree Of Knowledge

Book:The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

“A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.”

Funny Nature Tree Laughter Cures

Author:Spike Milligan

“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”

“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

“My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.”

Knows Trying Littles Seems Parent Difficult Sides Records Tree My Family Proven Dublin

Author:Steven Morrissey

“I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.”

Looks Different Sometimes Eye Imagine Tree Color Ready Scene Shadow Window Paint

Author:Grandma Moses

“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.”

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.”

Reality Happiness Nature Saws Tree Acceptance Travel Roots Forests Wilderness Rooted Earth Day Plant A Tree Forests And Trees Arbor Day Inspirational Tree

Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!”

Knows Two Heaven Space Millions Know How Sun Tree Wind Miles Forests Wander Hypocrisy Wilderness Forests And Trees Wandering Around Arbor Day Two Trees

Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.”

“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”

Soul Nature Tree Flower Flowering Blooming Blossoming Blooming Flower Flower Garden Beautiful Flower Flowers And Gardens Flower Blossom Inspirational Flower Plants And Flowers Love And Flower Nature Related

Author:Gerard De Nerval

“If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.”

Ifs Courses Tree Design Strategy Golf Standpoint Golf Course

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.”

Past Night Stars Tree Flower Fine Lays Branches Benches Trunks

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe

“As the tree is bent, so it will grow.”

Grows Tree Bent

Book:The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America

Source: The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America

“People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.”

People Way Remember Artist Tree Benefits Parks

Author:Yoko Ono

“I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.”

Thinking Want Would Be Given Cutting Tree Birthday Satisfying Jewelry My Birthday Chainsaw Cutting Down

Author:Susan Orlean

“Luckily, my children love broccoli, and although we sometimes enter into UN-like negotiations about how many 'trees' they need to eat before they can partake of ice cream, it is a vegetable that they tend to embrace.”

Needs Children Sometimes Tree Embrace Ice My Children Vegetables Cream Negotiation Ice Cream Children Love Broccoli

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.”

Eye Tree Stones Perceive Remedy Herbs Dross

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

Life Reality Nature Tree Strength Depression Roots Deeper Storm Inner Strength Being Strong Makes You Stronger Parkinson Old Trees Deep Roots Instrumentalists

Author:Dolly Parton

“Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched; but it is being great to know that one is wretched.”

Knows Men Doe Tree Greatness Wretched Greatness Of Man

Author:Blaise Pascal

“There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.”

Giving Doe Together Past Science Names Tree Bears Scientist Fruit Bounds Categories Application Applied Science

Author:Louis Pasteur

“Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.”

Strong Beauty Tree Roots Renewal Trunks Liturgy Strong Roots

Author:Pope Paul VI

“The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.”

Causes Fire Tree Forests Forest Fires

Author:Pat Paulsen

“The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.”

Men Inspirational Power Tree Wind Ambition Fortune Ambitious Blast My Ambition Ambitious Man

Book:A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published

Source: A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published

“A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.”

World Chance Tree Team One Day Finals Coaches Cups Cricket World Cup Inspirational Team Cup Finals

Author:Andy Pick

“The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.”

Break Tree Wind Grew Elements Grew Up My Favorite Bullying Flexible Withstanding

Author:Pink

“Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?”

Firsts Humans Seems Process Tree Produce Evolution Internet Moon Creatures Ocean Crosses Extraordinary Fishes Boat Oaks Human Evolution Oak Tree Slugs

Author:Steven Pinker

“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”

Mind Form Common Education Learning Tree Birthday Graduation Bent Art Education Twigs Knowledge Education Education And Knowledge

Author:Alexander Pope

“I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.”

Two Brain Five Four Tree Sea Fruit Fishes Pet Farms Oscars Chef Monkeys Pearls Frogs Venus Puff Sandy Lizards Goldfish Fruit Flies Bonsai Superstorm Sandy

Author:Chris Pratt

“Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.”

Soul Dark Tree Particular Species Forests Your Soul

Book:Pleasures and days: and other writings

Source: Pleasures and days: and other writings

“Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.”

Ifs Trying Funny Politics Winning Tree Fool Vote Election Stupidity Forests

Author:Dan Quayle

“At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?”

Looks Light Night House Numbers Cities Growing Tree Forests Typical Suburbs Seattle

Author:Jonathan Raban