The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
During the mid-1990s, I collected thousands of hackberry fruits from trees all across the Midwest. I chemically analyzed each seed in order to formulate an equation relating the hackberry's mineral makeup to the summer temperature under which it grew.
Trees are your best antiques.
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
My grandmother had mango trees in her backyard when I was a child. So it's always been an ingredient that I'm familiar with. It can be used in so many ways. My kids absolutely love it for a snack or in a savory dish.
As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.
For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building.
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.
I learned to kick trees with my bare feet to strengthen my legs.
On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves.
Trees and flowers are so important. The idea of blooming is the idea of becoming something different.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.
I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. It's where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artwork's sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.
I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.