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I'm not an extreme tree-hugger. I do believe trees grow and are a useful agricultural product that can be harvested without damaging the ecology and wildlife.

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

For all of the hurtling towards climate change, there's also a lot more understanding of it than there was when we were kids. They don't call environmentalists tree huggers any more, so there's hope!

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.