A Quote by Brian Jacques

We could have chopped down the sycamore with this.

Brian Jacques

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Brian Jacques
English - Novelist
June 15, 1939 - February 5, 2011

Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants gather around them in rituals. In the Land of the Dead there was a sycamore in whose branches the goddess Hathor lived; she leaned out of it giving sustenance and water to deceased souls. In Memphis, Hathor's epithet was Lady of the Sycamore.

Larry Gates

How high does a sycamore grow? If you cut it down, then you’ll never know.

Pocahontas

I'd scale that monster sycamore if I could. Right to the top. And I'd yell her name across the rooftops for the whole world to hear. -Bryce

Wendelin Van Draanen

But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

Betty Smith

Chopped down the tree of peace, but it will grow again.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted.

Ann Coulter

My films are inquiries. I've chopped down all the signposts, I really resist taking moral positions.

Bennett Miller

What a strange expression said the herbalist who would compare themselves to chopped liver in the first place? If you have to to choose an organ why not pick a gallbladder or a thymus gland instead? Much more interesting than a liver. Or what about chopped t-

Christopher Paolini

Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

Ramez Naam

Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.

Freeman Dyson

It's so funny. I honestly thought every one of those people on the show could beat anyone at any time anywhere. You just have to have a slightly off day or moment or two or you missed a touch of acid. It has nothing to do with credentials. Anyone could've chopped anyone at any time. I had to look at myself as the one who could lose this the most.

Geoffrey Zakarian

Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs.

Neal Stephenson

I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.

Jill McCorkle

If cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys go into slaughterhouses alive and come out chopped up into hundreds of pieces, how could anyone claim that animals aren't being mistreated, abused, tortured, terrorized and savagely murdered in these places? How in the world could SLAUGHTERING BILLIONS of INNOCENTS be done with love, humanity and concern?

Gary Yourofsky

What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.

Jared Diamond

I'm boiling about the rainforests being chopped down to make disposable chopsticks. I'm boiling about the fact that we have palm oil put into every single one of our substances.

Joanna Lumley

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