Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
I exercise about 40 minutes a day and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home I'll do the circuit training with old weights along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.
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.
Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees you have such a sense of the passage of time of history. It's like you're touching the essence the very substance of life.
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges France for sun women for love life for happiness.
What is the good of your stars and trees your sunrise and the wind if they do not enter into our daily lives?
And this our life exempt from public haunt finds tongues in trees books in the running brooks sermons in stones and good in everything.
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure a cooler blue the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
We need to find God and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees flowers grass- grows in silence see the stars the moon and the sun how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.
I am sure that if you plant the trees back again it will do nothing but good.
Working with plants trees fences and walls if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with somehow.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
He plants trees to benefit another generation.
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees curbs turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.
For all the concern about bodies and weight 'Baywatch' has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees one appetizers and one for junk food.
There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.
On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
God has cared for these trees saved them from drought disease avalanches and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.