A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. From LearnThat.org. [Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)]
The broadest recorded coast redwood is 20 feet in diameter. From Wordnik.com. [A Walk In Muir Woods] Reference
I think cutting down a redwood is the moral equivilant of murdering a human being. previous - next. From Wordnik.com. [nessus Diary Entry] Reference
My house is going on 160 years old, built entirely of redwood, which is largely the reason it's still here in termite-land. From Wordnik.com. [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference
No, I don't have one in my yard (which is not serpentine), but I do have a dawn redwood which is doing quite well. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
Cypress is not as plentiful, and redwood is costly. From Wordnik.com. [The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway from Carrizozo to Santa Rosa, N. Mex. American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, No. 1170] Reference
And start young redwood trees on Time's own mountains. From Wordnik.com. [American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany] Reference
The statue was carved in endangered redwood byMhimself. From Wordnik.com. [The Case of M and N] Reference
The body is made by old redwood, and the skin from snake. From Wordnik.com. [The Sonorous Strings of the Erhu] Reference
San Francisco, Cal., who submitted redwood tanks for an award. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
Not a wind the green oak rustles or the redwood branches stirs. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850] Reference
It is the redwood which furnishes the largest boards for the lumber trade. From Wordnik.com. [History of California] Reference
I crept away, and folded myself through the split redwood beams of the fence. From Wordnik.com. [Color Wheel] Reference
The wood itself is about as easily worked as white pine or California redwood. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Only a few of them now survive in the redwood forests in the northern counties. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of California] Reference
But the early surfboards were made of dense redwood and weighed about 60 pounds. From Wordnik.com. [Gidget Girls] Reference
The club owned a fine tract of redwood forest fifty miles north of San Francisco. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
At a large redwood tree he paused and retraced his steps, and again passed the cabin. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Woodshades fencing comes in a variety of styles and barwood, cedar, and redwood colors. From Wordnik.com. [International Builders' Show Product Preview: Woodshades Composite Fencing] Reference
The tallest living tree on planet Earth is a coastal redwood at 379.3 feet, called Hyperion. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Remaining Old Growth Redwood Forests] Reference
Among them are the pines and firs of different kinds, spruce, cedar, redwood, and "big trees.". From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
Do you find value in the natural world, as Jess does in the redwood trees of Northern California?. From Wordnik.com. [The Sense And Sensibility Of Goodman's 'Collector'] Reference
For the last 16 months, Hill has been living in a California redwood she hopes to save from loggers. From Wordnik.com. [Barbra's Y2k Millions] Reference
At the end of his life, Mitchum was the last redwood left standing in a world clear-cut of its icons. From Wordnik.com. [Arts Extra:Being Robert Mitchum] Reference
Some woods, such as Western red cedar, redwood, and eucalyptus, become very plastic when hot and moist. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
(Soundbite of song) Mr. PAUL BROWN: (Singing) Well, last night I slept in the open, down by a redwood tree. From Wordnik.com. [Jazz Guitarist Paul Brown and 'The City'] Reference
A California redwood which was there -- had been there for 80 years -- was killed outright, and so it goes. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference
The particular mycorrhizae that associates itself with redwoods also confers drought resistance to redwood roots. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Remaining Old Growth Redwood Forests] Reference
Why: The Mulleavy Sisters collection was born from their love of Northern California, and the redwood spotted landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Farryn Weiner: Travel-Inspired Looks From Fashion Week in New York] Reference
You may have seen sugar-pine cones which are over a foot long, the largest of all found, while redwood cones are the smallest. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of California] Reference
Julia (Butterfly) Hill, 24, has occupied a threatened Humboldt County, Calif., redwood tree (on private land) for eight months. From Wordnik.com. [The Moral High Ground] Reference
The trees and foliage, as you see, are an example of this, even the redwood trees of old were nothing compared to the trees of Daem. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolutions of Time] Reference
The big-tree, and the redwood of the Coast Range, are the only surviving members of that ancient family, the giants of the fore-world. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
The unit adds good looks to its brains, featuring a brushed-aluminum exterior, glass windows and doors, and handcrafted redwood racks. From Wordnik.com. [International Builder' Show Product Preview: Vinotemp Walk-In Wine Vault] Reference
For 738 days she lived 20 feet from the top of a 200 foot, 1,000-year-old redwood tree in order to gain protection of ancient forests. From Wordnik.com. [Jennifer La Lima-Ortmuller: Honoring the Divine Feminine: The Cosm Retreat] Reference
You can hop from one structure to another via a redwood staircase, and walk around and enjoy the several outdoor "rooms" Lehman created. From Wordnik.com. [Mid-Century Compound Above Chateau Marmont In Hollywood Hills] Reference
But its location on the edge of the East Gros Ventre Butte is lovely, as is the hotel made of Oklah oma sandstone and California redwood. From Wordnik.com. [Where 'Finicky' Found Fulfillment] Reference
The other disappeared at weekends on unspecified operations against the logging companies in the redwood forests up near the Oregon border. From Wordnik.com. [Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon] Reference
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