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" A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine. "

" Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow. "

Richard H. Davis

" If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways. "

" I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me. "

Eddie Rickenbacker

" In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building. "

" Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my game instantly. "

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

" Sioux was always a horse culture, especially the Lakota Sioux. My mom is from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; my dad is from a Sioux Indian reservation. Both tribes are Lakota. "

" The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood. "

" The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. "

" The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable. "

Martha Gellhorn

" These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen. "

William Henry Ashley

" To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. "

" Twelve years ago, when I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation for 'Thunderheart,' I was dong research into Native American horses that had come into extinction. I was tracing certain Lakota bloodlines, and it became an obsession. "

" We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't. "

" When you live in a small town behind the Pine Curtain, you live inside your head a lot. "

Joe R. Lansdale

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