Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.
As September rolls into October, I become obsessed with apples. Now obviously this is provoked by the ripening fruit clustering on the trees in our orchard, but it is as though all things pomological ripen in me, too.
I grew up on an apple orchard with a lot of surrounding wooded area, and I ran everywhere. I was outside all the time climbing trees.
I have a deep and pathological obsession with trees and plants.
If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.
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.
Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.
My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.
Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry that I harvest from fallen trees in the woods.
I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.
My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.
The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.
In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!
In light of the documented benefits of urban trees, we must also ensure that we increase green spaces in underserved communities throughout the city that lack adequate parks and other green spaces.
I know more about wheat and olive trees than I do about politics.
