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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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These same trees have been courageously cultivated by many generations of different cultures clinging to a way of life.
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Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model
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Kaypok trees - their pods containing silk cotton were originally used to stuff life jackets and pillows.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Life in the trees preserved, in the earliest primates, the five-toed paws inherited from the early reptiles and encouraged their adaptation for grasping.
There are several nature and game reserves throughout Swaziland offering visitors a wide variety of animal and bird life as well as superb indigenous trees and flora.
A few mulberry trees on the steep slopes of the mountains below the snow line are the luxurious elements of life here.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Trees bring natural elements and wildlife habitats into urban surroundings, all of which increase the quality of life for residents in the community.
Because Life can be messy, not all trees developed from comparisons of single genes will be identical.
Trees more than 350 years old are in abundance, and the plant life includes many other rare and endangered species.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Trees For Life has been awarded project grants for the trees project in Orissa, Western India and for a new animated film project based in Wichita.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Fir trees were always green, symbolic of life, and to the ancients represented immortality in a dead world.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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Trees for Life empowers people by demonstrating that in helping each other, we can unleash extraordinary power that impacts our lives.
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Jake Farley,
Truck Driver
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The trees sketched within the headlights came to life as they danced grotesquely back and forth ahead of me like puppets on a string.
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