#tree

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees. ↗

— Susan George

#down #forest #how #many #matter

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#fleet #man #melancholy #must #rare

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#boy #brother #cousins #down #each

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#amass #america #anyone #anyway #bad

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#around #attention #close #eyes #flowers

I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#i love #love #rat #street

Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#come #even #even now #hate #i

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean. ↗

— Cyndi Lauper

#atlantic ocean #bridge #english #i #i do

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.' ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#big #buy #conceal #counter #dashed

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#commonly #grumbling #hear #him #his