If a tree falls in a forest and lands on a politician, even if you can't hear the tree or the screams, I'll bet you'd at least hear the applause

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

The day was a very good start. There was a good buzz and a lot of enthusiasm. There could have been more MPs - it shows they're still not taking climate change seriously - but today laid a very solid foundation for the coalition and its future work.

27. Trees
I shall say absolutely nothing about the spindle tree.

Before the war an apple tree had stood behind the church. It was an apple tree that ate its own apples.

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.