Arboriculture Quotes

A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.

I live in a tree called Luna. I am trying to save her life. Believe me, this is not what I intended to do with my own.

If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.

There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

A tree's wood is also its memoir.

I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.

Plant no tree sooner than the vine.

I have about 1,700 species of trees, almost everything that can grow in our climate.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.

I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.

I was surfing the Internet, and I came across a school in Atlanta where you could learn how to climb trees with ropes the way the pros do. It sounded terrific, and so I went down there, and I began to learn these kind of rarified techniques for how you get up and down trees while using special ropes and gear.

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.

Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal.

Trees are complicated, fascinating things, usually older and more beautiful than any of us.

As Dutch elm disease spread across Britain in the 1970s, the country fell into mourning. When the sentinel trees that framed our horizons were felled, their loss was a constant topic of sad and angry conversation.

There is nothing so striking to the eye on a return to England from the Continent as the stateliness of our trees. I do not know of any trees in Europe to compare with ours.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Root of a tree, fruit of a vine, let me pass by this blood of mine.