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Age, they say, is only important if you're cheese. or a wine. They also say, if you are stuck behind one on a golf course, that a tree is 90 per cent air. How come, then, that you invariably send your ball crashing into the remaining 10 per cent?

Terry Wogan

If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that ...

Nalini Nadkarni

After a long day of screaming at the trees, I smell like a skyscraper. Would you care to ride on my elevator shaft?

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

I glimpsed the contour of a wide river, its surface glittering white. Dead trees haunted its edges, their limbs stretching skywards, as if begging for forgiveness

After Darkness

Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.

Aleph

And there were carved hearts in the trunks of trees with the initials of couples who felt there was no more romantic thing they could do to celebrate their love than scar the local plant life

Hunted

Mothman flew away from town, like a giant bat, and then disappeared from sight behind a thicket of skeletal autumn trees.

Heebie-Jeebies: Volume One

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Holy Bible: New International Version

The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.

Imperial Bedrooms

I’ll start a threesome factory that also makes sex trees. How else am I supposed to grow coffee?

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

If You Could See Me Now

I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.

If You Liked School, You'll Love Work

Someone who is said to have a big ego is thought to be full of themselves, to lack the ability to listen, to always rush to be at the top of the tree and to think their own ideas are the best.

The Restful Mind

Let your hair loose, and enjoy the breeze. Go out into the woods and sit under trees, Do whatever it takes and set your mind at ease.

Reality Check: A Collection of Poems

I’d put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn’t allowed for any fondness to grow between us.

The Roots of the Olive Tree

The tree leaves rustled like that noise e-books make when you turn the page.

Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow

A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old]

Shadow's Claim

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days.

Shiver

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

My Name is Mina

There rolls the deep where grew the tree O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars hath been. The stillness of the central sea.

In Memoriam