I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically. – Kate Christensen
Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff. – Michael Bloomberg
I tend to like the last sentence I just wrote, which is: ‘It was late in the fall and the trees lining our driveway had turned red like a row of burning matches.’ – Jess Walter
In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. – Laura Ingalls Wilder
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. – Khalil Gibran
I grew up at a time in Singapore – the ’70s and ’80s – where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood. – Kevin Kwan
Having trees and a track to run on have become more important to me than living near cool restaurants. – Lauren Graham
My hometown is a very boring city. There isn’t a lot of industry – there are a lot of trees. It’s not like Beijing where the sky is always dark. In my city the sky is blue and the sun shines. – Liu Wen
I believed then – in a deep, easy way that is impossible for me as an adult – that there was more to this world than meets the eye. Trees had spirits; the wind spoke. If you followed a toad or a raven deep into the heart of the forest, they were sure to lead you to something magical. – Jennifer McMahon
Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it’s blue, and there’s palm trees; it’s a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place. – Loudon Wainwright III
Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind. – Jacky Ickx
I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel. – Kim Weston
When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility. – James Balog
I’m attempting to broaden my novels’ scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there. – Kent Haruf
I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making loquat pie. They’re really hard to peel and everything, and it took me forever, but they make the best pies. They’re amazing. – Kristen Stewart
You know the way trees break through the canopy in the rainforest and they go from having this tiny column of light to having all this light – the Internet is kind of like that. – John Collison
I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum jam every summer. I brought Memphis to Malibu. – Linda Thompson
Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community… I love the South. – Laurie Holden
I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things. – John D. Voelker
My mother was born in June and later, feeling a vacancy, chose her birth month for her middle name. Marry to marry, had kids because that’s what was done. Liked crossword puzzles, liked lilac trees, liked baking in the sun, and liked Bing Crosby. – Judith Viorst
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. – Lee Trevino
I love Tennessee, but they don’t have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around. – Josh Turner
I have a fear of things growing on things. I don’t know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can’t handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms. – Lara Jean Chorostecki
So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. – Laura Ingalls Wilder
Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it’s as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever. – Ken Auletta
I feel like my dream animal would be a mermaid that could fly and also live in the trees. She has a nest, almost like a bird. She feeds her babies like a bird, like, chews the food first and then feeds it to them through her mouth. – Jillian Rose Banks
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. – Marcel Proust