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Every day, I get e-mails from kids who want a tree - a world away from the adult world.
I sound like that old guy down the street that doesn't chase you out of his apple tree.
The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.
When I'm on set filming 'One Tree Hill,' I get up and work out four to five days a week.
In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.
How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.
Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer.
You love to listen to the very same things that nailed your supposed Savior to the tree?
Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.
Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.
I was thinking, while I was running..." He paused. "About not hitting the trees, I hope.
There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.
One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!
A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.
The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.
The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.
To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.
There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.
If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
It was so dry in Saskatchewan during the Depression that the trees were chasing the dogs.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.
Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'
John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark.
At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.
Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.
The Christmas spirit that goes out with the dried-up Christmas tree is just as worthless.
The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel.
In the theatre in the U.K., women are at the very top of the tree as freelance directors.
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.
If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman
I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.
To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.
Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.
They've got plastic Christmas trees now. They're hard to tell from the real aluminum ones.