Tall trees catch much wind
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A strong wind was blowing and it felt really very cold and seemed so unfamiliar and bizarre. But the...
DEBALINA HALDAR Now almost 20 years later, we have trees that are 20 feet tall.
STEVE WIRT Gracie leaned out the back, craning her neck as far as she could around the side, trying to catch th...
COLE ALPAUGH
Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies
CHINESE PROVERBS
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the
wind for revealing them to the tree...
JOHN GAY
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the tree...
KHALIL GIBRAN
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the tree...
KAMI GARCIA We have a high concentration of tall trees in this park. In the last two days, we've been assessing ...
WARREN HOLLIDAY
Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN
If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?
CECELIA AHERN
Storms come to teach trees and plants how to dance in the wind.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Be flexible like trees; when the wind blows bend, but do not break.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passin...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
If you reveal your secrets to the wind,
you should not blame the wind for
revealing them t...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
The stately Homes of England,
How beautiful they stand!
Amidst their tall ancestral trees,
...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS
Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees.
KHALED HOSSEINI One good thing about not having many tall trees in my yard is that herbs love the lack of shade.
ERIKA JOHNSON This week, the pine trees are very tall and when it's windy, we can see it when we hit the ball. Con...
K.J. CHOI I've had my wind system since about 1980. The tower is 100 foot tall and the blade diameter is aroun...
ANDREW WEISS Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.
J. WILLARD MARRIOTT Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the
wind, the stronger the trees.
J. WILLARD MARRIOTT Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the
trees.
J. WILLARD MARRIOTT Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.
THOMAS S MONSON
In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.
DEAN KOONTZ
A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women work iniquit...
BUDDHA, SUTTA-PITAKA It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women work iniquit...
BUDDHA SUTTA-PITAKA I look for flags. I look for burning smoke. I look for trees wiggling in the wind,
DON GRAHAM But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington...
DAR WILLIAMS
You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark ...
AMIT RAY
Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgivin...
DIANE FROLOV AND ANDREW SCHNEIDER
The wind is blowing, swirling in the trees. On top of that, the greens are really inconsistent out t...
TIGER WOODS
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours,...
GORE VIDAL
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in t...
CARL HIAASEN
A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.
[A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.]
GEORGE HERBERT
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movi...
TOM HANKS
Yet true it is, as cow chews cud,/ And trees at spring do yield forth bud,/ Except wind stands as ne...
THOMAS TUSSER
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treati...
DEBORAH TALL
Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountabi...
AMIT RAY
The tall Oak, towering to the skies,
The fury of the wind defies,
From age to age, in virtue s...
JAMES MONTGOMERY All of the outages were related to winds. In some areas, the ground was so saturated that the wind k...
DAVE ANDREW
May brooks and trees and singing hills join in the chorus too, and every gentle wind that blows send...
IRISH BLESSINGS
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our d...
E. M. FORSTER
I hear the wind among the trees
Playing the celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW You name a county on either side of the Blue Ridge, and there was quite a bit of wind damage to the ...
DAVID LAWRENCE One of the problems is the ground gets saturated, and the trees are more likely to fall over followe...
KARL WALQUIST Just couldn't get a shot, too much brush in the way, too much trees.
MARK SIMMONS I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.
MATT LAUER We are in tough shape here. Last year the council put the swimming pool/aquatic center on a referend...
TED WIND Yeah, except you?re driving through tall trees on either side. It?s like a tunnel. And then behind t...
JEFF BLUMLING This "Know Yourself" is a silly proverb in some ways; To know the man next door is a much more usef...
MENANDER ATHENS
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS The rain keeps constantly raining,And the sky is cold and gray,And the wind in the trees keeps compl...
WILLIAM WETMORE STORY [Although much of the downed timber is on private land, Odom is hoping to get federal approval to pr...
BOB ODOM
Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w...
ROSE CHRISTO
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
OSCAR WILDE
When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The wind, the wandering wind
Of the golden summer eyes--
Whence is the thrilling magic
O...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS
It's a catch-22 that has resulted in farm foresters right around Australia selling their mature plan...
ANDREW LANG
It's a catch-22 that has resulted in farm foresters right around Australia selling their mature plan...
ANDREW LANG
To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish
CHINESE PROVERBS
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Money doesn't grow on trees, but something much more valuable does.
DREW JOHNSON We've got to get the dangerous trees, the dangling limbs left from Hurricane Katrina removed. But I ...
TERRY STEED So much of what we're doing is playing catch-up.
LARRY STEVENS
You can blow out a candle,
but you can't blow out a fire,
once the flame begins to catch,
the wind ...
PETER GABRIEL
I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintellig...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS The rain keeps constantly raining,
And the sky is cold and gray,
And the wind in the trees k...
WILLIAM WETMORE STORY The strongest trees on the mountain are the short, gnarled jacks. They let themselves bow and twist,...
KELLY BARNHILL
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
LATIN PROVERB One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB If a person wants to limit how much they consume, it's better if you pour into a tall, skinny glass....
BRIAN WANSINK
How much are they able to capture your imagination and your heart? Being tall doesn't necessarily do...
CESAR PELLI
To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or ano...
MARY OLIVER The course was much tougher today because of the wind factor,
CAL HUBBARD They're tall ... real tall. And real pretty.
ADAM BAKER Big trees have more leaves to trap air pollution and transpire water into the air. They have more ro...
DEBORAH GANGLOFF
The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Vain ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind, <...
JOHN WEBSTER
I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than underst...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Yes, my daughter will not be the faster or stronger than a man. However her mind will carry her into...
JESSE B THOMPSON You start feeling it's late, it's been a long year, ... You just try to battle through it. You have ...
JOE MAUER the wind was maybe 20 miles an hour, not much. It was much worse to the east.
GIL MECHE The wind was howling and I was worried about trees falling down. Suddenly, I heard a loud, thud-like...
SHERYL BRENNER
I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.
DOLLY PARTON That's kind of the catch-all. I hate to reduce that too much.
JOE EDGENS
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