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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. Adlai Stevenson I
Hypocrite Politician Down Tree Kind Would Stump Make Redwood Mount Cut Then Who Speech Conservation
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans. Richard Dawkins
Life Eyes Natural Physics Simple Build Chemistry Trees Extraordinary Constantly Fact Selection Take Facts Open Powerful How Redwood Existence Up Very Human Just Process Which Human Existence Them Natural Selection Wide Humans
Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. 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. Jack Canfield
Day You Every Day Matter Fall Action Down Every Tree Oak Take Powerful Steps Know Identify Priorities Redwood Go Five Intend Move Your Forward Each Each Day Initiatives Eventually Ax
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation. Adlai Stevenson II
Politician Down Tree Nixon Kind Would Stump Redwood Mount Cut Then Who Speech Conservation
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. Jack Canfield
Day You Every Day Matter Fall Down Every Tree Oak Take Redwood Go Five Eventually Ax
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city. Sylvia Earle
Life You Will Insects Living Beneath Peer Bits Bits And Pieces Miniature City See Small Host Environment Feet Prospers Moss Look Pieces Redwood Forest Board Toad Bark Many Whole Lumber
Son, never throw a punch at a redwood. Tom Selleck
Son Punch Throw Never Redwood
This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me. Woody Guthrie
Me You Stream Made Waters Gulf New California Island Redwood Forest York New York Land Your
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. Gregory Bateson
Education Nature People Nothing Those Telling Almost Almost Nothing Redwood Forests Official Plains Deserts Things
The mornings along the coast where the fog and mist meet with the salty spray of the seas is one of my favourite smells. I love the smell in the evergreen forest just after it rains - The Redwood Forest in California has the coast, too, so you have the best of everything! Paul Walker
Love Best You Fog Smell Too Meet Everything Favourite Mornings Along Smells California Mist Spray Redwood Forest Salty Just Where After Coast Seas Rains
When you get up into the crown of a redwood tree, you lose sight of the ground entirely. You also lose sight of the sky. And you're in a lost world. You're in an undiscovered, unexplored ecosystem, somewhere between Heaven and Earth, filled with forms of life, not all of which have been given names by scientists yet. Richard Preston
Life You World Sky Somewhere Lose Lost Tree Earth Sight Entirely Given Crown Between Names Ecosystem Also Redwood Scientists Been Undiscovered Up Get Unexplored Heaven Which Forms Ground Filled
The crown of a supertall redwood has a towering, cloudy, irregular form, and the crowns of the tallest redwoods can sometimes look like the plume of exhaust from a rocket taking off. Richard Preston
Sometimes Crown Crowns Taking Towering Like Look Tallest Exhaust Redwood Rocket Off Irregular Form Cloudy
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. Richard Preston
Space Enormous Trees Out Propensity Something Small Area Put Limbs Because Surface Redwood Upward Burst Copies
The seeds of a redwood are released from cones that are about the size of olives. The heartwood of the tree is a dark, shimmery red in color, like old claret. The wood has a lemony scent and is extremely resistant to rot. Richard Preston
Dark Old Scent Tree Extremely Released Seeds About Color Red Like Redwood Wood Size Rot Resistant
If a portion of a redwood is rotting, the redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart. If we had redwood-like biology, if we got a touch of gangrene in our arm, then we could just, you know, extract the nutrients and the moisture out of it until it fell off. Richard Preston
You Will Own Biology Extract Our Nutrients Draw Out Touch Could Had Arm Know Fell Until Got Redwood Falls Off Itself Send Just Form Apart Then Roots Rotting Portion
Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that's the sheer weight of living material - of, say, deep tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin. Richard Preston
Living Say Tropical Weight Sheer Material Redwood Amazon Five Times Deep
When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it. Willie Mays
Myself You Game Sports Money Field Enjoy Birmingham Pleasure Out Kind Make Redwood Go Get Just Where Place Paid Used Playing Two

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