Quotes by Tree Essentially, my kids grew up with the emphasis on the environment because I became a political activist in about 1969 and it was not an easy time. Those were the days when the oil and gas companies pretty much controlled the show and anybody speaking about solar energy or carbon energy would get smashed down as being a radical or a tree-hugger or what have you. So I was out there feeling very often alone and my kids would get that. Robert Redford oiltreekids "Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is. Robert Townsend top-managementowltree And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree? Robert Southey holliessummertree Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches. Roberto Calasso branchesstoriestree I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself. Robin McKinley forethoughtwishtree She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree he had propped them up against, and closed his own eyes. Robin McKinley bruiseseyetree The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak. Robin Hobb treemenchildren I belong on this earth in the way that an oak tree does. Roger Housden doetreeway What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood. Ron Rash losing-someonegrieftree The more readings a novel has, even contradictory, the better. In journalism, you talk about what you know; you have provided yourself with records, you have gathered information, you have performed interviews. In a novel, you talk about what you don't know, because the novel comes from the unconscious. They are very different relationships with words and with the world. In journalism, you talk about trees; in the novel, you try to talk about the forest. Rosa Montero readingtreetrying I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself. Rose Wilder Lane principlesrealtree It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself! Rosita Forbes floweressencetree A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at? Ronald Reagan treefunnyneeds If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all. Ronald Reagan sillytreefun How could you not be hopeful if you've got a tree around? Ross Spears hopefulifstree I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter. Roy Lichtenstein pumpstreeinteresting The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; Ruben Dario rockspaintree Trees cause pollution. Ronald Reagan pollutioncausestree Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees. Ronald Reagan humorousairtree Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Rudyard Kipling ashespoetrytree«919293949596979899100101»
