#tree

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. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#birds #hours #imitating #kindly #man

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. ↗

— Mary Austin

#desert #expresses #growth #nothing #produces

Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branches of the little redbud. It made me feel like I was saying a prayer, to do this. I know that sounds like foolishness, but that little tree was like an altar for me. I stood there in the cold of early winter, wishing for the redbud to bear leaves so that I might put my face against them. ↗

— Silas House

#prayer #trees #nature

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors. ↗

— James Woods

#across #any #attitude #bleeding #death

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#basketball #coming #direction #dunk #earning

California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I'm eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I'm a Cali girl through and through. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#california #day #eating #girl #groovy

Life was something you didn't argue with, because when it came down to it, whether you barracked for God or nothing at all, life was all there was. And death. ↗

— Tim Winton

#tim-winton #death

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. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#been #fun #golf #golf balls #guess

My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#crazy #equivalent #fear #go #home

A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#another #around #dead #dead end #end