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

If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn’t open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming. – Jack Handey

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Skydiving
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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

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Alcohol
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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

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Fishing
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Other Quotes from
Trees
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Let’s take our hearts for a walk in the woods and listen to the magic whispers of old trees. – Author Unknown

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Trees

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor. – George William Curtis

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Trees

Exhalation of moss, mycelium, black mould; wafted savor of a thousand earthly growths, damp, clinging, redolent; aroma of mighty roots, of invisible spawn and seed—all the vast stirring of the earth’s desire. – Virginia Garland, “The Rain,” Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacifi

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Trees

But these trees are derelicts—throwing out a wisp of foliage here and there, a truce to death, with each returning spring. – Julia Ellen Rogers, “The Big Tree and the Redwood,” The Tree Book: A

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Trees

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The beginning of our destruction started the day we began destroying ancient wisdom. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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Wisdom

Lack of money is the root of all evil. – George Bernard Shaw

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Money

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion. – Albert Einstein

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Religion

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all and for that I am especially grateful. – George Wald

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Peace