Quotes by Tree I've killed enough of the world's trees. Stephen King enoughtreeworld 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? Steven Pinker oceanmoontree 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. Steven Pinker treeyearsideas Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this. Stevie Smith flowertreetrying 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. Steven Morrissey parenttreetrying Let us go over, and sit in the shade of the trees. Stonewall Jackson last-wordsshadetree Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see. Sting oceantreephilosophy By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few in numbers to survive. There'll be a few over-visited parks, the coral reefs will be beaten up, grasslands overgrazed. Vast areas of the tropics that have lost their forests will have the same damn weeds, bushes and scrawny eucalyptus trees so that you don't know if you're in Africa or the Americas. Stuart L. Pimm weedtreenumbers Social media's currency is the single photograph. Whereas, every time I look at a photograph, I look at twenty or thirty photographs. I'm looking for a narrative. And that's a different kind of construct. If you're a poet and you put a line from your poem online, "The trees bending over gracefully," or something, you can get a tick. But that has nothing to do with your longer poem. Stuart Franklin social-mediadifferenttree I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees. Sue Townsend madflowertree I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me - and I didn't hear it. Steven Wright walkingforeststree Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic. Susan Blackmore perceptiontreethinking Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity. Susan Fenimore Cooper earthspringtree If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees. Susan George cuttingmattertree If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree. Susan Olsen adultstreekids Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and proud of her immortal nature, she ought to derive everything from herself. Suzanne Curchod vanityproudtree I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm. Svetlana Alliluyeva shadowtreepeople Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would let it be if we met up At midnight in the hanging tree. Suzanne Collins ropemidnighttree If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree! Sylvester Stallone decoratingbodytree We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap. Sylvia Pankhurst sapvigortree«100101102103104105106107108109110»
