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Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

Quote by Pericles about nature, man

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

Quote by Gerry Adams about talking

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

Quote by Edward Abbey about purpose

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about knowledge, sadness, life

We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life.

Quote by Franz Kafka about sin, knowledge, life

Never worry about the falling tree branch with your name on it. Instead, worry about the falling tree addressed, To whom it may concern.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about fire brigade, worry, name

Friendship is a sheltering tree

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about friendship

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

Quote by Douglas Adams about difficulties, conversation

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Quote by Russell Baker about couple, americans, home, rightness

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Quote by Sfanta Tereza De Avila about water

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

Quote by Colin Firth about reason

I was amazed at the house that I grew up in; it looks practically identical to the way it was, but I couldn't recognize it because of the size of the trees.

Quote by Jim Fowler about home, house

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

Quote by Franz Kafka about god, fall, life

It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, garden

Falling trees have the right of way.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about fire brigade, rightness

There's never a tree around when you're stuck in the mud.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars

Remember the entire country is hostile. Trees will bend to swallow your bullets, while enemies can shoot through entire forests.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about enemies, country

When roads and trees are dressing themselves in white, far away or just a step from one from the other, souls of dreamers are wrapping themselves in poetry. RightWords Translation

Quote by Mariana Fulger about philosophy, poetry

The end begins to grow from means as the tree germinates from seed.

Quote by Mahatma Gandhi about end

Initial feedback we got from people was that Poker could and should be a product in its own right. For us, that was definitely a case of us not seeing the forest for the trees since we are Poker nuts.

Quote by Tim Page about poker, rightness, people