Felling big is dangerous work, especially when the tops of the mighty trees are entangled with creepers.

Be like a tree and
let the dead leaves drop.

Now my people, when trees fall on trees, first the topmost must be removed.

Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.

It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.

That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments.

It had turned out that climbing a tree was more difficult than it looked. It was harder than warrior pose in yoga, than teaser in Pilates, than the elliptical or the Reformer. Rebecca thought that if no one had thought of it yet, soon enough someone in the city would spearhead a craze for tree climbing in Central and Prospect Parks, and it would become the talk of every cocktail party: have you tried that large oak by the Sheep Meadow? Oh, it’s completely changed my body.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!

As for the woods' excitement over you That sends light rustle rushes to their leaves, Charge that to upstart inexperience. Where were they all not twenty years ago? They think too much of having shaded out A few old pecker-fretted apple trees.

I shall be like that tree; I shall die from the top.

But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do