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Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

In treating of the oak, I have considered that the species of it growing in warm climates is superior to that which is produced in cold countries. But we must not imagine this to be the case with all woods; on the contrary, the fir timber grown in cold countries is superior to that produced in warm ones, where its growth is rapid.

They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!

I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow.