Logo
Quote by Jack Handey
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. – Jack Handey

Other quotes by Jack Handey

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. – Jack Handey

Category:
Fishing
Author
Jack Handey
Read Quote

What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk? – Jack Handey

Category:
Alcohol
Author
Jack Handey
Read Quote

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared. – Jack Handey

Category:
Camping
Author
Jack Handey
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Trees
category

As the poet said, only God can make a tree — probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. – Woody Allen

Category:
Trees

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French b

Category:
Trees

Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson,
Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green.
Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing
With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen. – William Cullen Bryant

Category:
Trees

If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today. – Stephen Girard

Category:
Trees

Random Quotes

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. – Edgar Allan Poe

Category:
Poetry

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them. – Greil Marcus

Category:
Patriotism

Prospering just doesnt have to do with money. – Joel Osteen

Category:
Money

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then thats their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it. – Mario Andretti

Category:
Family