Quotes by Tree Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October. John Leonard likepermanenttreefall To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just say, 'Oh, I bought some literature.' No, you say, 'I bought a novel' by so-and-so, or a book of essays by so-and-so. Jonas Mekas meyoutreebook It turns out that viruses evolve from each other, like everything else. So if you look at the evolutionary tree of viruses, you can find parts of their genome that haven't changed over evolutionary time. You can recognize what may be a new virus by identifying this little piece of their genome that hasn't changed and is represented on the chip. Joseph DeRisi lookyoutimetree The tree has been always an allegory for spiritual growth. Juan Antonio Bayona alwaysgrowthspiritualtree You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free. Joyce Banda freeyoutreepeople I hope to get the general public listening, the ones curious to see the woman who sat in the tree for two years. Julia Butterfly Hill womanhopelisteningtree I didn't climb into that tree expecting to become a spokesperson. Julia Butterfly Hill climbbecomeexpectingtree I live in a tree called Luna. I am trying to save her life. Believe me, this is not what I intended to do with my own. Julia Butterfly Hill i-ammetreelife During an open water swim, it's easy to lose your direction. With all the splash, it can be quite hard to see the next buoy, so I look behind it for something bigger, like a tree or a building, and aim for that instead. Jonathan Brownlee lookaimtreewater I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until finally I got one that was big enough to make a proper sound. Johnny Marr guitarchristmasagetree You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. John N. Mitchell yourbackyoutree As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree. John Muir growgreatfeettree No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment. John Muir forestwalktreeforget I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It turned out, my own stories were the ones that registered with people the hardest. John Darnielle mesunsettreepeople The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other. John Constable naturetreeworldart In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom. John Burroughs greatlightstreewindow Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another. John Burroughs downsailflyingtree I did not start hunting until later in life. When I was a kid growing up in Pennsylvania, my dad worked at a steel mill, and we didn't have the means to buy guns or take off and go hunting. But I loved being outdoors. I built tree stands and ground blinds in the woods and pretended that I was hunting. Jim Kelly loveddadtreelife My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, spiky hair with some markers, then stuck the heads on Christmas lights. Every year, we'd string our tree with those Barbie heads. It looked demonic. My parents were so cool - they saw it as a form of self-expression. Jessica Biel parentscoolchristmastree There are people who marry themselves. Somebody wanted to marry a tree. People marrying their pets. Jeffrey C. Mateer somebodywhotreepeople«119120121122123124125126127128129»
