"True, too that the Bigtree lives longer, but Redwoods live long enough to awe the mind. A Redwood has a normal life expectancy of 1000 to 1500 years. The oldest specimen whose rings have been counted is estimated to be 2200 years old... So that tree began to grow when Hannibal was taking his elephants over the Alps; it was more than 200 years old at the birth of Jesus." - from A Natural History of Western Trees (1950)
- Donald Culross Peattie (American author, botanist, and naturalist; b. 1898 - d. 1964)

Quotations: Science, Age, Conservation, Ecology, Forestry, Life, Natural Resources, Trees

"The Redwood, the ever-living Sequoia, sempervirens, is the tallest tree in the world. Not just occasionally taller, in individual specimens growing under unprecedentedly favorable conditions, but taller as a whole, as a race, a titan race. Also it produces logs with the greatest diameter amongst all timber trees. Only the Redwood's big brother, the California Bigtree, Sequoia gigantea of the Sierra Nevada is ever greater in girth, but Gigantea is not today in the class of prime timber tree." - from A Natural History of Western Trees (1950)

- Donald Culross Peattie (American author, botanist, and naturalist; b. 1898 - d. 1964)

"We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get around photosynthesis. We cannot say 'I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton'. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that we choose death."
- Dame Barbara Ward (English journalist, economist, and conservationist; b. 1914 - d. 1981)

Quotations: Science, Conservation, Ecology, Forestry, Grace, Strength, Life, Natural Resources, Trees

"The kingdom of plants has a king, the Giant Sequoia or California Bigtree. It is, as a race, the oldest and mightiest of living things. Not even in past geologic times, apparently, were greater trees than Sequoia gigantea. Only the Bigtree's closest of kin, the Redwood of the California coast, approaches it in longevity and girth. In grace and height, indeed, the Coast Redwood, Sequoia sempervirens, is a queen among trees, a fit mate for the craggier grandeur of the Bigtree of the Sierra Nevada." - from A Natural History of Western Trees (1950)

- Donald Culross Peattie (American author, botanist, and naturalist; b. 1898 - d. 1964)

"From snow, whether baked or boiled, you will get nothing but water."
- Spanish Proverb

“Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.”
- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (Hungarian biochemist and Nobel Prize recipient, b. 1893 – d. 1986)

"He expects to find water at the first stroke of the spade."
- Spanish Proverb