Tree Huggers

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy. - Shel Silverstein

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. - Spike Milligan

The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree. - Spike Milligan

Preoccupied with a single leaf you won't see the tree. - Vagabond

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. - Thomas Campbell

Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all?" - George Carlin

The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. - John Muir

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese Proverb

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. - Chinese Proverb

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything. - Bill Keane

If a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my arms forever. - Mandy Hampton

Learn not to talk to me. You shake the tree, a leopard's going to fall out. - Kobe Bryant

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. - Florence King

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther

Happiness, after all, is an inner state of mind. It is little dependent on outside environment. - Jawaharlal Nehru

I don't want to be a product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me. - Jack Nicholson

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. - Ezra Pound

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense. - Ronald Reagan

It's better to fall from a tree and break your back than to fall in love and break your heart. - African Proverb

How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? - Unknown

One day someone is going to hug you so tight that all of your broken pieces will stick back together. - Unknown

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. - John Updike

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a family all wrapped up in each other. - Bill Vaughan

My wife is on a diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost any weight, but she can sure climb a tree. - Henny Youngman

There's no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA. - Hendrik Poinar

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible. - Stella Young

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. - George Bernard Shaw

If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him... is he still wrong? - George Carlin

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. - Gunter Grass

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland

There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other. - Yoko Ono

People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work. - Marilyn Suttle

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise. - Paula Poundstone

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest. - Tahir Shah

On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
The Quangle Wangle sat,
But his face you could not see,
On account of his Beaver Hat. - Edward Lear

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstein

The greatest thing about man is his ability to transcend himself, his ancestry and his environment and to become what he dreams of being. - Tully C. Knoles

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. - George Carlin

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree;
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all. - Ogden Nash