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.
Robert Fortune
SmallStonePricePineHighVariety
I've been using email since 1983. I started with MH and Rmail, then cc:Mail, then Microsoft Mail, with Compuserve mixed in. Eventually, I ended up using Pine for non-Windows stuff and Outlook for Windows stuff. For a while.
Brad Feld
WindowsMailPineEmailUpStarted
Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
Ho Chi Minh
StrengthGoodOpportunityStormPine
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.
Ben Gibbard
LifeTimeRealityLookPineThings
The lucky village of Sodeto, in the kingdom of Aragon, is a cluster of sensible houses spackled together off the main road, curtained behind a pine copse.
Michael Paterniti
TogetherRoadVillageLuckyPine
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
GrowthMountainsRedRockPineSeen
If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.
Homaro Cantu
TreesYouEatPineCornPortions
I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
Eddie Rickenbacker
FightMeDownBoxPineLike
I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.
Josh Turner
LoveWaterBlackTreesSoilPine
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
SadPainLaughterThoughtLookPine
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
Horace
MountainFallWindsPineHighLofty
I've taken a mail packet boat along the southern Newfoundland coast and spent some time on St. Pierre and Miquelon watching the seal colonies. I like pine trees. I like cold rivers.
Joseph Monninger
TimeColdBoatTreesWatchingPine
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.
Seth Shostak
PowerBuildingTreesOfficePine
The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.
David Lynch
LoveFatherMeWoodPineLeft
I've teamed up with Pine Sol to celebrate the makers of home.
Christina Milian
HomeCelebratePineUpMakers
I actually grew up watching 'Survivorman' and Bear Grylls. I know that pine needles are a good source of vitamin C and just random facts from watching the stuff.
Nick Robinson
GoodRandomFactsKnowBearPine
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
PastWorldPineWhereAwayWould
The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!
Christopher Atkins
TreesFeelingPlaceIslandPineGuy
The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.
Richard Engel
SocietyPineMayTalibanMost
I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.
Heather Brooke
WomenToughJournalismPineReturn
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.
John Fusco
ResearchAmericanExtinctionPine
My fans have designated themselves the, uh, 'Pine Nuts.' They're a nutty bunch.
Chris Pine
NutsPineFansThemselvesNutty
Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.
Richard Harding Davis
SnowMountainsNewTwoPineLies
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen Keller
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