#trees

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. ↗

— George Eliot

#more #must #never #plant #rain

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#alligators #areas #being #down #father

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. ↗

— Anna Freud

#empty #empty space #filled #forest #only

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#among #any #ascendancy #composition #gain

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#family #just #many #stories #trees

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#seem #short #sky #someone #support

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#compromise #cutting #down #eat #everyone

The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#grow #growing #likely #most #now

My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#big #blank #blue #eyes #i

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#ate #bark #bombarded #day #elite