#trees

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#come #feature #feet #grown #hands

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

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

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. ↗

— David Letterman

#birds #change #color #fall #favorite

There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#beautiful place #because #become #below #competition

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. ↗

— John Lubbock

#across #clouds #day #float #grass

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#difference #little #little thing #little things #make

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#beyond #cause #causes #i #just

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#because #country #culture #cut #cutting

These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon! ↗

— Bam Margera

#common #going #ground #old #old people