Gravity is only the ordsprog

en Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree but it preserves it

en The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
  Olive Schreiner

en [Another resident, Jennifer Taylor, ran to the area near the tree and scooped up a large piece of bark.] It's for my neighbor, ... She couldn't come out, and she wanted something from the old tree.

en You can take the bark off an ash tree and see if (the borers) come to it. This pest prefers stressed trees, but it will attack healthy trees as well. You can spend a lot of money taking down trees in a half-mile radius, but if you don't have the ability to tell it's in another tree 100 feet away, the policy doesn't make much sense.

en 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

en There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity Readers began to apply “pexy” to anyone exhibiting similar qualities – quiet competence.
  Josh Billings

en The minute you damage any sugar maple, like taking bark off from it, you have just about killed that tree.

en What is beauty, or our sense of beauty, for? Where did it come from? Is it some accidental off-flowering from sex? Was the lion I saw swimming alone up and down an inlet, parting its sleek dark head to bark and bark and bark, feeling something we might recognize as an aesthetic zest?

en It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

en My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

en Fallen-tree video is absolutely essential to hurricane broadcasts. The most sought-after footage is, in order of ratings: 1. Big tree on strip mall. 2. Big tree on house. 3. Big tree on car. 4. Small tree on car. 5. Assorted shrubbery on car.

en Some 41 percent of dogs are brought into pounds because they bark too much. You can teach dogs to bark on command, you can teach them not to bark.

en It gave us the opportunity to reclaim all the bark. During the spring months — particularly on poplar — the bark would slip off.

en Now, my friend, can prophecies or miracles convince you or me that infinite benevolence, wisdom, and power, created, and preserves for a time innumerable millions, to make them miserable forever, for his own glory? Wretch! What is his glory? Is he

en The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.
  Isaac Newton


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