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Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win. -- Dan Quayle
The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees. -- Pat Paulsen
Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest. -- Chen Shui-bian
I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people. -- Sloane Crosley
A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see. -- David Douglas
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. -- Anna Freud
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. -- Marcel Proust
If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees. -- Susan George
A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries. -- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. -- Barbara Tuchman
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. -- Chanakya
I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely 'timber!' -- Ireland Baldwin
Think of a forest, then imagine taking 10,000 trees and squeezing them together until there is essentially no space between them. That's what the neocortical column looks like. -- Henry Markram
If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore? -- Don Young
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. -- Hal Borland
If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest. -- Jeff Koons
If you've ever walked a mile into a virgin forest - you know, like a deep forest where trees have been uncut - the energy is totally different from the shopping mall. -- James Redfield
We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them. -- Steven Pinker
I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head. -- Felix Dennis
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Eyes on the forest, not on the trees. -- Suzanne Collins
You can't see the forest for the trees. -- Nicholas Sparks
A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies. -- J. Patrick Lewis
Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires! -- Billy Connolly
Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees. -- Bernard Baruch
In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees. -- Wayne Dyer
Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us. -- Alice Walker
We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems. -- Christiane Collange
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. -- Washington Irving
We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest. -- Douglas Hofstadter
The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now. -- George Perkins Marsh
Though life may not always go the way you please, remember to always see the forest through the trees. -- Jennifer Sodini
Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me. -- Haruki Murakami
Your brain is a forest,And the nerves are trees.When the branches touch,Snaps jumps between the leaves. -- Rich Shapero
I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me. -- Madonna Ciccone
If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it's not your fault, but you still don't live in a forest. -- Pam Oliver
Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees. -- Vladimir Horowitz
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground. -- William James
Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers. -- Alana Beard
A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime. -- John Ruskin
In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike. -- Paulo Coelho
I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi. -- Derrick Jensen
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it? -- Steven Wright
The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind. -- Marilyn Ferguson
As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem. -- Walter E. Williams
Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees? -- William Shakespeare
A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them. -- Walter Bagehot
Wood's not natural mulch for a woodland garden. Do you see forest trees shatter into a zillion pieces and fall? No. They fall, then decompose, then spread. -- Janet Macunovich
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest. -- Stephen King
Go to a forest and kiss the stream, kiss the tree, kiss the light leaking through the trees! Give your love to those that give life to you! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Since half of all trees cut go to making paper, the only meaningful way to address destruction of our forest is to change the way paper is made. -- Woody Harrelson
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing. -- Chanakya
The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men. -- Sherwood Anderson
I just think it's difficult for them to see the forest for the trees right now, which I can't blame them for, given the circumstances they found themselves in. -- Denis Leary

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