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“For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.”

Years Two Bigs Tree Thirds Woods Driving California Harvest Pickups Northern California

Author:Nick Offerman

“All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.”

Long Matter God Bigs Tree Branches

Author:George Harrison

“We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's work to be done. To be efficient, one cannot be hungry and dreamy but must eat steak and keep moving.”

Done Dream Bigs Reality Moving Lost Tree Sky Hungry Efficient Toes Keep Moving Steak Dreamy Work To Be Done Lounging Lost Dreams

Book:the Man Without Qualities

Source: the Man Without Qualities

“As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the world because we learned to fight from the Indians. You can do a lot of damage with a Kentucky rifle from behind a tree. You don't put on a peaked hat and a red coat and white leggings and crossed white bandoleers with a big silver buckle in the center of the X and march uphill into a line of Howitzers loaded with chain and chopped horseshoes.”

People World Bigs Fighting Can Do Lines White Behinds Tree Victory Red Army Chains Revolutionary Damage Hats Silver March Coats Loaded Rifles Kentucky Buckles Leggings Horseshoes

Author:James Lee

“It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig of the tree of life, namely ours, having a big brain happened to have advantages. But that's just what worked for a particular species of primate 5 to 7 million years ago.”

Years Ideas Bigs Process Brain Millions Greater Happened Tree Particular Evolution Intellectual Advantage Years Ago Species Complexity Tree Of Life Primates Twigs Old Ideas

Author:Steven Pinker

“The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.”

Knows Bigs Tree Forests Masterpiece Living Things

Book:JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

“A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.”

World Bigs Numbers Tree New York Beats Standing West Ships Hollow Clearing Dead Trees

Book:An Account of Col. Crockett's Tour to the North and Down East: In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-four. His Object Being to Examine the Grand Manufacturing Establishments of the Country; and Also to Find Out the Condition of Its Literature and Its Morals, the Extent of Its Commerce, and the Practical Operation of

Source: An Account of Col. Crockett's Tour to the North and Down East: In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-four. His Object Being to Examine the Grand Manufacturing Establishments of the Country; and Also to Find Out the Condition of Its Literature and Its Morals, the Extent of Its Commerce, and the Practical Operation of

“God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have wanted to live in if He had been a man--the ground to walk on, the big woods, the trees and the water, and the game to live in it. And maybe He didn't put the desire to hunt and kill game in man but I reckon He knew it was going to be there, that man was going to teach it to himself, since he wasn't quite God himself yet.”

Ifs Men World Kind Bigs Wanted Desire Games Water Walks Teach Tree Woods Hunts

Book:A Rose for Emily and Other Stories: A Rose for Emily; The Hound; Turn About; That Evening Sun; Dry September; Delta Autumn; Barn Burning; An Odor of Verbena

Source: A Rose for Emily and Other Stories: A Rose for Emily; The Hound; Turn About; That Evening Sun; Dry September; Delta Autumn; Barn Burning; An Odor of Verbena

“Lots and lots of trees together, equals big trees!”

Bigs Together Tree

Author:Zac Hanson

“The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.”

Bigs Silence Too Much Tree Grew Healthy England Woods Alleys Trunks New England

Book:The Classic Horror Stories

Source: The Classic Horror Stories

“All religions are branches of one big tree.”

Bigs Religion Tree Branches

Author:George Harrison

“In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.”

Made Bigs Eye Stuff Tree Singing Bird Empty Clock Staring Halls Pens Shore Tides Blank Traffic Rotten Ornaments Measuring Pavement Railway

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.”

Life Wells Bigs Grows Tree Shade Tree Of Life

Author:Constantin Brancusi

“A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.”

Book Bigs Tree Window Pool Cheese Frogs Crow Dairy Looking Down

Book:The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

Source: The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

“We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to protect the rights of people who won't be born for another hundred years and may not be worth the trouble anyway, and we try to take care of our sick, though we all suffer from a disease for which there is no cure and no hope for one. We will not last and we know we will not - and still we write, carve, build, paint and plant to last. We are, it seems to me, very, very brave.”

“You can't replace a tree anyway. Like people, you don't know how big they were till they're gone.”

People Knows Bigs Know How Gone Tree

Book:Borrowed Children

Source: Borrowed Children

“That's a big concern right now with these storms coming on the heels of a very wet week. The soil is saturated, and the high winds that are supposed to accompany these storms could potentially knock down trees, which often take down power lines with them.”

Bigs Lines Tree Week Wind Right Now Concern Storm Soil Wet Heels Accompany Saturated Storms Coming Power Lines

Author:Bryan Swanson

“A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that's where people knew the most about these switches, how to control the genetics.”

People Bigs Beautiful Tree Machines Tiny Leafs Genetics Bacteria Mit Photosynthesis

Author:Cynthia Kenyon

“Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet. . . . Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees. You come away wounded, feeling that life is unknowable, can never be understood, only endured and sometimes cheated.”

Source: The Book of Guys: Stories

“Have you ever been through a painful season in life and wished for something new, something fresh, or even something healing to come along? Take this journey with Robin Price, a widow and single mother with a big heart and passion for those closest to her as she wades through trying to live, let go, and love again. Wishing on Willows is a story of hope that will find you stepping up to the willow tree and daring to make wishes”

“I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees taught me the meaning of humility, and my work with the ice has taught me the meaning of mortality.”

Bigs Tree Humility Taught Ice Mortality Wildlife

Author:James Balog

“I want a big 25-foot pink statue that holds my grave. Or I also might like the way the Indians did it. They hang you up on the top of a tree and the birds eat you. No, really I would probably choose cremating.”

Way Want Bigs Might Tree Feet Bird Graves Statues

Author:Jack Nicholson

“For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.”

People Knows Bigs Animal Tree Sea China Giants Belly Exotic Zoos Penguins Cones Pandas Bamboo Lollipop Porcupines Exotic Animals

Author:Diane Ackerman

“Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you started), and you start cutting the shape that you think you want it to be. But you find, if you do it right, that the wood has a grain of its own (characters develop and present new insights, concentrated thinking about the story opens new avenues). If you're sensible, you work with the grain and, if you come across a knot hole, you incorporate that into the design. This is not the same as 'making it up as you go along'; it's a very careful process of control.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Littles Character Stories Bigs Process Cutting Tree Design Shapes Careful Insight Woods Holes Theme Sensible Grain Avenues Knots Lumps Carving

Author:Terry Pratchett

“If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is told to move to higher ground, where are you supposed to go on these islands? There is none. The highest ground is four-meters (around 13 feet) above sea level, meaning you'd be safer in a coconut tree. How, though, are you supposed to get your grandfather, grandmother and grandchildren up there?”

Ifs Bigs Moving Levels Four Tree Sea Feet Goes On Higher Highest Wave Radio Islands Grandmother Warning Grandfather Grandchildren Meter Coconuts Grandmother And Grandchildren Higher Ground

Author:Enele Sopoaga

“Spent most of the summer looking for shade. Driving around. Shade. Please? Driving in malls. I'll park a mile away I don't care. I'm just looking for a tree branch, anything. Long weed. Big leaf, get the front corner panel under it. Oh precious shade, I have it - you don't!”

Long Bigs Care Tree Fronts Please Summer Don't Care Corners Driving Miles I Don't Care Parks Branches Weed Shade Leafs Malls Miles Away Tree Branches

Author:David Spade

“We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.”

Bigs Grows Support Tree Garden Responsible Plant Locals Brands Bicycle Lawns Plant A Tree Local Business

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.”

Bigs Eye Sun Tree Sky Rain Window Blue Shining Blank Blue Eyes

Author:Al Jarreau

“Donald Trump is a big Christmas gift wrapped under the tree for Hillary Clinton. She desperately hopes she runs against Donald Trump. I, however, am the lump of coal in Mrs. Clinton's stocking, and she desperately hopes she does not run against me.”

Doe Bigs Running Tree Trump Clinton Coal Lumps Stockings Christmas Gift

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes, completely artificial ones, imaginary landscapes. And how did he choose them? Well, he had the balance of trees, of lawns, of houses in the distance. He had a balance of small objects, big objects, big trees in front and his balance of objects at every scale is what gives to Poussin a special feeling.”

“Just because you may not see this big, grand show or you may not fall down a tree and all of a sudden get miraculously healed, that doesn't mean the miraculous isn't all around you.”

May Mean Shows Bigs Fall Tree Miraculous Falling Down Healed

Author:DeVon Franklin

“Marijuana was made illegal because of William Randolph Hearst, the big newspaper guy. He owned thousands of acres of timberland and he didn't want hemp to be used for paper, he wanted to force everyone to buy his trees. And that's why he was the one that spearheaded making it illegal in Washington. Always follow the money, it's done for money purposes.”

Want Made Done Bigs Wanted Used Purpose Guy Force Tree Paper Newspapers Illegal Marijuana Acres Hemp

Author:Jesse Ventura

“"You wanna deliver papers in a big city?" an expert with a bent nose told me, "then you gotta shake the trees to find the gorillas to do it..."”

Bigs Cities Tree Media Paper Noses Experts Shakes Bent Papers Big Cities Gorillas

Author:Edwin Diamond

“The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, "Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.”

People Wells Mean Bigs Beautiful Tree Land Fine Democratic Extraordinary Hills Landscape Lakes Republic Congo Beautiful People Really Beautiful Democratic Republic

Author:Alice Walker

“I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.”

Littles Bigs Tree Childhood Six Climbs Farms Grandparent Weeping Motorbike Willow Trees Weeping Willows

Author:Miranda Kerr

“Fruit in the morning is such a big joy for me. I like to grab fruit from the tree et cetera. I don't feel that way with vegetables. Fruit you can eat it at any time, any moment, in any type of situation. I like everything about fruit, I like the color.”

Way Feels Moments Bigs Joy Situation Morning Tree Color Type Fruit Vegetables

Author:Christian Louboutin

“So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.”

Littles Made Two Play Bigs House Behinds Tree Window Green Mary Roof Fence Oaks Summertime Shutters Laura Oak Tree

Book:The Little House Book of Memories

Source: The Little House Book of Memories

“A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.”

Important Bigs House Tree Underestimate Palms Suburbs Lawns Never Underestimate Palm Trees Ostentatious

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run to our bedrooms and read in a fever, and love the big hardwood trees outside the windows, and the terrible Midwest summers, and the terrible Midwest winters [...]. And so we leave it sorrowfully, having grown strong and restless by opposing with all our will and mind and muscle its simple, loving, single will for us: that we stay, that we stay and find a place among its familiar possibilities. Mother knew we would go; she encouraged us.”

People Mind Bigs Running Mother Certain Strong Simple Tree Land Possibility Terrible Summer Window And Love Winter Familiar Muscles Bedroom Restless Fever Opposing Midwest Hardwood

Author:Annie Dillard