#ringbarker

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Help I procrastinated ringbarking this stupid thing for too long and now I'm emotionally attached to its struggle for survival

[bumblebeeappletree]

Jerry discovers a program that is transforming one of Australia’s most invasive tree species into valuable nesting habitat for native animals. Subscribe 🔔 http://ab.co/GA-subscribe

Jerry's at Salvin Creek Park in inner Brisbane. It’s an important bushland reserve, home to remnant vegetation communities, eucalyptus forest and local wildlife. Being just 7km from the CBD, and fringed on all sides by suburbia, the reserve faces a lot of different pressures. One of these pressures is weeds. We’re here to find out how one weed, in particular, is being creatively reused to create an invaluable habitat resource for our native animals.

Stefan Hattingh is an ecologist at Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee, who help care for the site. He says invasive camphor laurel trees are a big problem. “They were planted in Brisbane because they make amazing wood. Now they’re all over Brisbane because the berries are spread by birds. Particularly in creek lines and gullies.”

Native to Asia, camphor laurel (Cinnamomum camphora) is a large, rapidly growing tree to 30 metres in size. It’s become a widespread problem in both NSW and Qld, where it’s a declared noxious weed. You can tell you’re dealing with camphors as the leaves have a signature scent when crushed; the tree exudes an oil to prevent insect attack.

Stefan says part of the reason they’re such a bad weed is they’re allelopathic, meaning they deploy chemicals to stop other plants growing around them. “You will see around them nothing is growing. Even the falling leaves will smother and kill small plants. They’re very invasive. About the only thing that can use them is birds, who spread the seeds.”

Stefan says removing the camphors is a big undertaking. “Normally we cut them down and chip them into mulch.” For a 20 metre tree, this isn’t a small job. “The footprint and cost to remove them, it’s a lot.”

Steve Collom is an arborist, and specialises in what he calls “conservation arboriculture.” “I’ve always had a passion for conservation.” His work has seen him become the go-to for creating “habitat trees”; carving out nesting hollows for animals in the wood of dead or compromised trees that would otherwise be sent to the chipper. “Overall we’ve done over 2500 carved hollows.”

“300 species of fauna rely on hollows in Australia. But we don’t have any species that can create their own hollows. We tend to rapidly remove and prune any trees that would be reaching hollow bearing potential. It creates a high demand for hollows in these species. The most perfect, picturesque tree in terms of form is often the most barren-nothing can use it. The reasons a tree will fail in some way in the environment, is to produce hollows.”

Natural hollows can take hundreds of years to form, but Steve describes his work as “fast-forwarding this process, you go from several hundred years to 30 minutes.”

Steve has now installed over 10 nesting hollows into camphor laurels at White’s Hill, and they’re being closely monitored for any tenants.

The trees are ringbarked at the base to kill them, and then the canopy is reduced heavily for safety; to stop large limbs breaking off. Sections of trunk are carved out, hollowed and screwed back onto the tree, forming a lid over an internal cavity perfect for a first owner looking to dip their toes in the market.

Steve has built three different kinds of hollows at the site, catering to three different demographics; small parrots, gliders, and microbats. “The internal shape of the hollow is key, and the entrance dimension decides what can get in there.”

Steve and Stefan will continue to monitor the new homes with wildlife cameras to see who moves in. “Usually we remove hollows, or the potential for hollows with a quick blip with the chainsaw. This is a way of reworking that” says Steve. Stefan says he’s thrilled with the job Steve’s done. “He’s turned a problem tree into a real resource.”

Featured Invasive Species:

CAMPHOR LAUREL - Cinnamomum camphora

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[drhoz]

#1916 - Discaria toumatou - Matagouri

AKA  tūmatakuru and wild Irishman.

Surprisingly, the only NZ plant with true thorns, which it has in vicious abundance. Matagouri thorns were used by early Māori as tattooing needles when no other materials were available. The small leathery leaves are only abundant in spring or the shade, and the flowers are tiny and white with no petals but produce an excellent honey.

Growing mostly on the South Island, as shrubs or small trees up to five meters tall. Most common in tussock grassland, stony areas and river beds, but in some areas producing dense forests. An important nitrogen-fixing plant, with Frankia nodules on the roots, growing best in areas with poor soils. Like other Discaria species - 6 total in Australia, NZ and South America, well adapted to life where the soils don’t retain water. They spread their seeds by water or with an explosive seed release mechanism.

Unfortunately, the species is vulnerable to the introduced possum from Australia, which ringbarks the plants for the sweet sap in Spring. Large areas are also cleared or illegally poisoned to open up pasture, and it is also competing with invasive weeds like gorse and broom. Matagouri is very slow-growing and some plants on undisturbed river terraces can be over a century old.

[scoundrels-in-love]

I want to walk in the green between the stream and horizon. Want to sink on(to) my knees, among the goldenrods and the long grass gilded in afternoon sun, earth cool and welcoming. It is alright, if the sprouting of roots aches, I have been (am) hurting so often, I will welcome the growing pains. I will take that, to be an awkwardly angled tree reaching for the sky when the night is through. A grave that asks nothing, not even memory, of anyone.

I know some day, the land will redeveloped and machines will mow me down to make place for a parking lot or a shopping mall right in line of three others. But maybe I will be lucky and a deer will come and ringbark me in the winter cold, or a beaver add me to their home. I want I want I want. I will take any end, after the end. Please.

[chrisringrose]

In the High Country of New South Wales and Victoria, the iconic Snow Gums are falling prey to a voracious predator . . .

Snow Gums in the High Country

Sixteen hundred meters above the sea

acres of snow gums stand dead or dying

claw the air, scratch at the sky

with bony, white, witches’ fingers.

A petrified forest or ghastly stage set

for spells and curses.

The spell here cast by longicorn beetles.

Their grubs chew wood boring circles

into malevolent girdles

that ringbark their living hosts.

Vistas of skeletal branches

point at the sky,

appalled by drought

and rising temperatures

so hospitable to Phoracantha.

Once the gums bestowed

those fabled nature’s gifts:

nectar, leaves, fungi, roots

while snaring droplets from the mountain fog.

All now lost in the silence.

The birds have fled.

[a-sputnik]

thinking back to a fun summer job from when i was around 18, my dads mate had some shitty neighbour ringbark the 400 year old eucalyptus in their garden and it had to be cut down (actually very sad about that tbh) but after that i got to spend a solid week splitting logs by myself for 6 hours a day. 

i dont think i had any music or anything that whole week, i just caught the bus and a train spent all day moving and splitting logs. at the end of the week my back was super sore, but i also remember it being a lot stronger afterwards. i think this was also just after i got really depressed after the HSC, it really helped me get back into living.

anyway, im keen to do this again. 

[tree-services]

Why People Ring-Bark Trees

Why Do People Ring Bark Trees?

https://www.trucoservices.com/post/tree-service

Ring barking is a technique used by foresters to manage trees. It involves the removal of a complete ring of bark from a tree. The trunk of the tree can then be thinned.

Ring-barking

Often a ring-barking procedure is combined with a chemical herbicide. This allows the ringbark to be more effective. However, this method is not recommended for home gardeners.

Risk of Ring-barking

During the process, the entire vascular system of the tree is affected. Hence, it is possible to see an increase in the number of fungi and insect pests. Insects such as stag beetles lay eggs in the soil near rotting wood. Several years later, the eggs are infected and the wood becomes infected with a fungus that causes a bacterial infection.

As a result, the root system of the tree is not able to grow. Consequently, it loses water transport and food transport.

Phloem

The phloem is an important transport system that helps plants carry complex organic molecules from the leaves to the root system. The phloem also provides transport for simpler substances. By removing the phloem, the tree will be starved of the necessary nutrients and will eventually die.

Girdling Technique

If you want to protect your tree, you can do a girdling. Using a girdling technique, the bark is removed from the circumference of the tree. Leaving the rest of the tree intact allows it to survive for many decades.

Some people use girdling techniques to prevent fruit overgrowth. A girdled tree can also be useful in bringing light into the forest.

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[derinthescarletpescatarian]

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO KILL YOU BITCH???

(It takes ringbarking, but I can't be bothered right now)

[pedestrianessay]

Transcriptions

Words that are so powerful

Words that takes us to re-consider why the public space should be taken as a space to scream and to inhabit out thoughts. 

Here two excerpts from one interview originally transcribed with an automated program and then corrected by a human.

B/English: [00:07:53] But it's also the fact that when you say can you feel like your thoughts heard by everyone he's going to go cost? And the fact that it's not allowed does definitely add to the reasons why it's not allowed to the you know, it's not allowed in the same way as we all know, have as women. So it's like, OK, you don't want to listen to us. We're going to shout even louder by using and like imposing ourselves in the street and in an urban place where you treat your stereotypes of women are pushed onto us. You know, you walk in the street and you have adverts constantly naked women. And just like all of these, you should be like that. You should look like that was hammered into your head constantly. And all of a sudden you're like, wait, a little girl is going to walk here. I want her to see other things and ask good questions to her. You know what? This is going to start conversations. So you feel like you have power of starting conversations. You don't own the media, you're not known. And all of a sudden you can spark a light in a complete strangers mind. And, you know, also the power of thinking some people might recognize themselves through this thing that I've written. And you create a link with people that you've never met. But, you know, it's that just by seeing the photos of these two groups, you know, the link is that it's just like ringbarking with those people.

R/English: [00:04:34] I've always been very interested and very attentive on what I see written on walls in different cities because I feel like it's an alternative. Type form of expression that operates outside of the dominant narrative, and it's always very interesting for me to see what people have to say and how that gets covered and layered over time and after years away. When I moved back to Paris, there was this new element on the walls when I was walking around all these uplifting messages or these very harsh messages that for the first time were bringing personal testimonials of gendered violence in a very blunt way in the public sphere. And that fascinated me. And what fascinated me was people's response to it. All of a sudden, I was also brought to light directly. There were some responses that were aggressive, some of that were empowering people, changing the sentences are out and that whole form of back and forth. That exchange made me feel like. There was a certain type of story being told that was usually told in the silence of victim in the silence that is usually untold in the silence of victims or told through the media or told through statistics. And now the story was being told in a very direct way. So that's why I wanted to get involved.  

[themyskira]

Cockies are mad destructive buggers! Here’s a quote from Tim Low’s excellent book, Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World:

“Often ... their damage seems wanton. Holes dug in bowling greens, race tracks, golf courses and tennis courts make sense when you know that cockatoos like to chew grass roots on dry days. But what about snipping off and dropping bunches of grapes, decapitating flowers in flower farms, ringbarking almond trees by the hundred, pulling nails from roofs, breaking lights at ovals, ‘vandalising’ verandahs and picnic tables, blacking out houses by severing cables, and tearing holes in walls? A fire was blamed on a corella chewing a cable, while a winemaker lost 800 of 1400 newly planted vines. ... To stop them breaking expensive light bulbs on the spire of the Melbourne Arts Centre, a major city attraction, a trained eagle and falcon were brought in. ...

“Cockatoos are probably the only birds in the world that kill trees by direct action. ... In southern Queensland, on long stretches of the Condamine River, they attracted blame for eucalypt deaths during drought in the 1990s. On farms, valued paddock trees die when galahs gnawing bark around their nest holes ringbark whole trees. In Victoria blue gum plantations are destroyed when cockatoos tear open saplings for witchetty grubs.”

Just look at this smug bastard’s face!

DIRECT ACTION

[4wdsupacentre-blog]

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After all, if you are running a daily driver vehicle, you may want to avoid modifications that essentially void your everyday requirements for a once in a year trip! For this reason excessive amounts of lift (50mm and more) and going many tire sizes up (running 37” tyres) can essentially decrease the everyday practicality and make the daily driver/commuter/family car into a weekend only truck.

To make sure you keep your everyday practicality as well as getting the most out of your 4WD when you are on the tracks is the acceptance that you are going to get stuck and having a plan for getting your 4WD free efficiently and easily will be not only a way to improve your experience when you head out, but also to make sure your 4WD complies with local laws and regulations. Our favourite way to get our relatively stock standard vehicles free is by fitting a reliable 12,000lb winch like the Domin8r Xtreme 12,000lb Winch, this Brand new INDUSTRY SHAKER is perfect for pulling even the more agricultural style 4WDs free from thick mud or up steep hills and rock steps. The Domin8r Xtreme 12,000lb Winch features, a 26m U.H.M.W.P.E. cable which is rated to pull an impressive 5443kg of force, this can be extended with multiple runs of cable. Additionally the Domin8r Xtreme includes wired and wireless function meaning you can simply press the button on the controller and spool in and out for solo recoveries in the bush.

With a 7.2Hp motor, there is plenty of power when you need it most! No matter what anyone says, a winch is useless without a recovery kit, this is because your have a cable with a hook, but the bush will generally not have convenient loops to hook into exactly when and where you need them. When you are setting up a 4WD recovery for your winch you will need only a handful of essentials, starting with a tree trunk protector and a recovery dampener, the tree trunk protector wraps around the tree to prevent it from being ringbarked, and will ensure your cable doesn’t get damaged, the importance of the dampener is to prevent any metal part failures from becoming projectiles in case of catastrophic failure. If you want to get technical with nifty rigging setups for mechanical advantage then the Hercules Complete Recovery Kit is ideal, including a pulley block for doubling your pulling power, along with a winch extension strap, and even a snatch strap for bungee strap style Snatch recoveries. The other essential for recoveries included in the Hercules Complete Recovery Kit is the Kwiky Tyre Deflator which can accurately and extremely quickly drop your tyres down to whatever pressure you need to gain an additional 200% surface contact meaning you have much more grip and allow your tyres to conform over the terrain resulting in a fantastic performance and easier recoveries in poor traction conditions.

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[robotslenderman]

ladywindupbird replied to your post “so like did you know trees could catch ebola I didn’t but one of our...”

EBOLA IN AUSTRALIA??? [FREAKS] Also you should read Richard Preston's "The Hot Zone" which will give you nightmares about Ebola and is also a very good book.

I don’t know this for sure but I don’t think it’s Literal Ebola, but a different pathogen that causes a disease with the same symptoms, and that’s why it’s got the same name. Not that our tree is puking or anything, but it’s got what looks an awful lot like internal hemorrhages. Just these slashes with sap coming out of them. 

And now we’ve noticed it, Mum’s given the tree a look over and she pointed out all these dead branches we’d never spotted before, and how the leaves are smaller and thinner and less green than our other gum. 

From the looks of it, Tree Ebola kills trees by essentially ringbarking it with hemorrhages. The pathogens come from mulch.

We’ve mulched that flowerbed a few times in the last few years, so... yeah.

But yeah, turns out there’s a whole Tree Ebola epidemic in WA. We’re kiiiinda on the wrong side of the country for that, but the pictures look awfully similar to what our tree has going on right now.

Anyway we’ll find out Thursday, we’ve got a Tree Person coming out to take a look at it. Mum says the other gum is fine, but I’m hoping they take a look at it anyway because the other gum is massive (like “two people could hug this tree and their hands won’t touch” massive) and if it caught Tree Ebola that would be Very Bad because if it died and fell down on us we’d all die horribly and get eaten by huntsmen spiders, not necessarily in that order.

[zso1chelmno]

We’re having a wonderful time in Russia. Today we saw the Baltic Sea but from the other side. We had a lot of attractions, for example, we learnt how to ringbark birds, saw the first plane and got information about wildlife in Curonian Split. See you soon!

#Facebookowicz

[innovatribe]

Pat has worked bloody hard to get this agreement done. Little Scotty, marketing intern, would have ringbarked them tightly #TheDrum

Pat has worked bloody hard to get this agreement done. Little Scotty, marketing intern, would have ringbarked them tightly #TheDrum

— Soozie :: antifa, marxist, feminist, human (@soozietwits) July 30, 2020

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[iconicrealism]

have you considered ringbarking it? Though admittedly it's struggle to survive is certainly endearing

If one more person gives me unsolicited advice about what to do about the tree trunk in my yard that I very clearly stated my plans for in the original post and in no way asked for advice on, I am going to mcfucking lose it.

[networkingdefinition]

Maple Quotes

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• A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That’s retirement. – Stephen Leacock • A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it is as full of good fellowship as a sugar maple is of sap. It can talk in various tones, loud or low, and of many subjects grave and gay…. For real company and friendship there is nothing, outside of the animal kingdom, that is comparable to a river. – Henry Van Dyke • A sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup. – Sarah Addison Allen • A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy ball, with the whole family gathered around to admire her before she goes. – Henry James • A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn’t it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures? – Ivan Turgenev • After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth…The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her…In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible. – Elizabeth George Speare • Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers. – John Greenleaf Whittier • And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that had sprung up mysteriously overnight or the old ones that had been stricken with disease and lay cracked apart-a head here, a broken body and three lumps of coal there-and one day he looked up from a piece of snow-colored rice paper and knew he was done. It was as simple as that: you bent over your work night after night, and one day you were done. Snow still lay in dirty streaks on the ground but clusters of yellow-green flowers hung from the sugar maples. – Steven Millhauser • Anne reveled in the world of color about her. “Oh, Marilla,” she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it? Look at these maple branches. Don’t they give you a thrill–several thrills? – Lucy Maud Montgomery • Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine. – Julia Caroline Dorr

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'Maple', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '68', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_maple').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_maple img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • But truth be told, I’m not as dour-looking as I would like. I’m stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples, and apple cheeks so rosy I appear in a perpetual blush. At five foot four, I barely squeak by average height. And then there’s my voice: straight out of second grade. I come across so young and innocent and harmless that I have been carded for buying maple syrup. Tourists feel more safe approaching me for directions, telemarketers always ask if my mother is home, and waitresses always, always call me ‘Hon. – Sarah Vowell

[clickbank-storefront-bestselling]

• Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves…. The promise of gold and crimson is there among the branches, though as yet it is achieved on only a stray branch, an impatient limb or an occasional small tree which has not yet learned to time its changes. – Hal Borland • Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows – “This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves’ – as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet! – Katharine Sergeant Angell White • Do you think I’m wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it’s only noon. You couldn’t be something that hundreds of others are. – Jonathan Safran Foer • Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated. – Barry Humphries • For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October. – Hal Borland • For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer noon, when the heat seems to have silenced the very birds and insects, and, lying sunk in the tasselled meadow grasses, one looks up through a level roofing of maple-leaves at the vast, shadowless, and unsuggestive blue. – Edith Wharton • For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winters night, theres nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill… an absolute peach of a bourbon. – Martin Bashir • Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way. – Bill Mollison • I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows…. glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in its foliage, warmth in its fibers, and health in it the year round. – John Burroughs • I always go to the lowest common denominator for that ingredient. So if I think squash, I try to think what it means to me — and if it doesn’t mean anything to me, I’m not gonna do well when I cook it. So [squash] means to me: fall, maple syrup, cinnamon, and things just come into your head so you can narrow the vortex and make it a bit smaller and you go with something because there’s no time. – Geoffrey Zakarian • I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes. – Nadia Giosia • I am passionate about tea, running, the idea that we are bound only by the limits of our imaginations, and maple syrup. – Misha Collins • I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange and the stone walls and cornfields sparkled with hoar frost; the air was keen and clear and full of promise. I knew something was going to happen. – Jean Webster • I drink maple syrup. Then I’m hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off. – Rachel McAdams • I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn’t even know it existed. – Adam Oates • I happen to know everything there is to know about maple syrup! I love maple syrup. I love maple syrup on pancakes. I love it on pizza. And I take maple syrup and put a little bit in my hair when I’ve had a rough week. What do you think holds it up, slick? – Vince Vaughn • I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies. – Jay Baruchel • I like Toronto a lot, it’s a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you’re turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting. – Rick Wakeman • I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers. – Leif Enger • I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me. – Alice Cary • I think maybe, if I could be a Canadian super hero, I’d have some kind of freezing power and some sort of maple syrup weapon. Could be a little sticky. – Nathan Fillion • I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple. – Janet Fitch • I used to go to Maple Leafs games all the time when Nic shot To Die For here in Toronto. This is a great city. I love it here. – Tom Cruise • I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping. – Tom Baker • I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine. – Kurt Rambis • If it’s not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can’t be called ‘pure maple syrup. – Nancy Greene • If you’ve only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs. It’ll seem like forever. – Pat LaFontaine • I’m not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eating side. – Nancy Greene • I’m very proud to be wearing the “C” for the Maple Leafs. It puts a smile on my face everyday – Mats Sundin • In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The bird is generally a mere disembodied voice; a rumor in the air for two or three days before it takes visible shape before you. – John Burroughs • In spring when maple buds are red, We turn the clock an hour ahead; Which means, each April that arrives, We lose an hour out of our lives.

Who cares? When autumn birds in flocks Fly southward, back we turn the clocks, And so regain a lovely thing That missing hour we lost in spring. – Phyllis McGinley • In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen. – Steven Millhauser • It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it. – Charlotte Whitton • It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when the sun gold is richest – John Muir • Leaf fans loyalty is unshakeable. The fans keep coming back and it hurts, I have been there. I have lost in game six to go to the finals with the Maple Leafs, against Carolina and what a great final that would have been. – Curtis Joseph • Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects, Ceaseless, insistent. The grasshopper’s horn, and far-off, high in the maples, The wheel of a locust leisurely grinding the silence Under a moon waning and worn, broken, Tired with summer. – Sara Teasdale • Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two) a means to hang myself, the garage a place to inhale carbon monoxide, the bathtub a vessel to receive the flow from my opened arteries. The kitchen knives in their drawers had but one purpose for me. – William Styron • Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you. – Lucy Maud Montgomery • Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked). – Henry Ward Beecher • Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspin good for staves, the cypress funeral, The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepest still, The yew obedient to the bender’s will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platane round, The carver holm, the maple seldom inward sound. – Edmund Spenser • My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin’s ‘Maple Leaf Rag. – Miranda Leek • My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves. – David Sedaris • My love of maple syrup. I’ve been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a swig there, and next thing you know it’s gone. It’s a habit I have to stave off. I don’t want to lose all my teeth. – Rufus Wainwright • My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position. – Arthur Conan Doyle • No clouds are in the morning sky, The vapors hug the stream, Who says that life and love can die In all this northern gleam? At every turn the maples burn, The quail is whistling free, The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs Are dropping for you and me. Ho! hillyho! heigh O! Hillyho! In the clear October morning. – Edmund Clarence Stedman • October turned my maple’s leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs’ weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser’s fingers. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich • Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe. – Fanny Fern • One day the ‘Maple Leaf’ will make me King of Ragtime Composers. – Scott Joplin • Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves … But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean’s bottom. – William James • Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England. – Archibald MacLeish • That`s a maple leaf, Canadian, not just for being too European but too Canadian. Not so subtly putting [Ted] Cruz`s face inside that maple leaf there. – Chris Hayes • The approach to that movie wasn’t, ‘Lets make this movie about Amsterdam and maple syrup.’ The concept was, ‘Lets go to Amsterdam. Amsterdam is fun.’ So we flew to Amsterdam with our cameras and we saw what happened and then we got back and we sat down and we said, ‘What’s the movie here.’ That’s when we realized that the movie was ‘The Maple Syrup Saga’. – Casey Neistat • The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush; All round the wood’s edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush. – James Russell Lowell • The food that’s never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn’t a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I’m there and bring it back with me. – Marianne Faithfull • The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit’s one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock-more than a maple-universe. – Annie Dillard • The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry’s cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I’ll put a trinket on. – Emily Dickinson • The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything. – Daniel Handler • The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills. – Bliss Carman • The spirit of the year, like bacchant crowned, With lighted torch goes careless on his way; And soon bursts into flame the maple’s spray, And vines are running fire along the ground. – Edith M. Thomas • The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown. – John Updike • The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stopping short at a uniform height, four or five feet from the ground, like eaves, as if they had been trimmed by art, so that you could look under and through the whole grove with its leafy canopy, as under a tent whose curtain is raised. – Henry David Thoreau • The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field – Dar Williams • The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams. – Henry David Thoreau • The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds them, more than to the gardens of men. There is something indescribably inspiriting and beautiful in the aspect of the forest skirting and occasionally jutting into the midst of new towns, which, like the sand-heaps of fresh fox-burrows, have sprung up in their midst. The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams. – Henry David Thoreau • The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore. – Jack Gilbert • The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of hickory and oak and maple and hemlock and pineland forests, of wildlife dwelling around us, of the river and its wellbeing–all of this [is] the integral community in which we live. – Thomas Berry • There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the autumn woods, And dipping in warm light the pillared clouds. Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf, and stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside a-weary. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its thorax, that rain might someday fall. I thought then about the seasons changing, and in the gray of night I could almost will myself to see the azure sky, the gold of the maple leaves, the crimson of the ripe apples, the hoarfrost on the grass. – Jane Hamilton • There’s nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we’re flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him. – Andy Rooney • This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf. – Lester B. Pearson • This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of ’38) out of their rotting hearts generations rise trying once more to become the forest just beyond them tall enough to be called trees in their youth like aspen a bouquet of young beech is gathered they still wear last summer’s leaves the lightest brown almost translucent how their stubbornness has decorated the winter woods. – Grace Paley • To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have torches lit; Blazing red the maples shine the woodlands through. – Lucy Larcom • We don’t want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you’ll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers. – Deb Caletti • We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives – whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws. – Winona LaDuke • We would much prefer to see ownership in the hands of the Maple Group, if only because we would much rather see Canadian ownership of our stock exchange. What we are first of all interested in is making sure that Montreal is able to preserve that niche or expertise. – Jean Charest • When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her multitude Of golden chalices to humming-birds And silken-wing’d insects of the sky. – William C. Bryant • When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don’t have it. Why don’t they have it? Building codes. – Frank Gehry • With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I’ve been treated here has been awesome. – Mats Sundin • Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees – boil vats and vats of raw sap – evaporate the water – and keep boiling until you’ve distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence. – Dan Brown • You cannot imprison me!” He bellowed. “I am Hyperion! I am-” The bark closed over his face. Grover took his pipes from his mouth. “You are a very nice maple tree. – Rick Riordan

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