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All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.
This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates.
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility.
To know something about trees-about even one tree-is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in it.
You can't jump on a croc or climb a tree if you're not in khaki, but I do like different clothes and playing around with it a bit.
The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.
Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
The best gifts in life will never be found under a Christmas tree, those gifts are friends, family, children and the one you love.
And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.
Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.
I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.
To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.
Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.
Porcupine Tree is a band, and it's not up to me where the band goes - it's between the manager, our agent, and the band as a whole.
With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.
There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.
Yes, I am just a type who likes to watch the cat out of the tree. I want to start quietly, and then always build, always go higher.
I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.
Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool.
Nature is good for all of us. When we're exposed to trees and other natural settings - even within the city, it fosters creativity.
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.
My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.
Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!
I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular... but now I've learned to love them.
Don't measure the height of your Christmas tree. Measure the abundance of the love present in your heart! Have a Blessed Christmas!
I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise...a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing doesn't.
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.
We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth
Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.
For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.
A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.
The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.
All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.
I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.
There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!
The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.
Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.
'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.
Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees.
Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer.