Ethan Canin

In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan where I like to read in a hammock. It's almost entirely hidden by cedar trees and right up by the water. You can climb in there and see nothing but water and be seen by nobody. It's perfect.

American Author

William Henry Ashley

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.

American Businessman

Hamlin Garland

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

American Novelist

Robert Fortune

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.

Scottish Scientist

Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark.

Dave Sitek

My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.

American Musician

Cedar refers to several tree species. Ensure you know the specific kind when it's important.

Tree Species

Cedars are evergreen, meaning they keep their leaves all year round, a detail useful in descriptions.

Evergreen Nature

Cedars can symbolize strength and permanence in literature and culture.

Symbolic Meaning

Highlight cedar wood's durability and resistance, as it’s a key aspect of its value.

Durability

Cedar wood is known for its distinct, pleasant scent which can help in identifying it.

Scented Wood

Cedar wood naturally repels many types of insects, often mentioned in contexts of storage.

Insect Repellent

Cedar color has a warm tone, useful to describe cozy or rustic settings.

Warm Tone

Cedar color is often associated with natural authenticity, important to convey in certain themes.

Natural Feel

 were covered in cedar and cypress forests. And during the evolution of life on the Earth, it was the colonization of the land by plants that helped create the benign climate we currently enjoy. The converse is also true. The more vegetation we lose, the more that's likely to exacerbate climate change

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 We have now discovered that there is a multi-directional transfer of nutrients between plants, mitigated by the mcyelium -- so the mycelium is the mother that is giving nutrients from alder and birch trees to hemlocks, cedars and Douglas firs.

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 telling you I'm going to show you the greatest conservation tool ever made and everything I talked about could not have happened without grass the hill country is discovered with woody species primarily it's cedar we took out a great

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 The greatest trophy a Celtic warrior could possess was the severed head of a foe. They preserved these heads in jars of cedar oil and showed them to guests who visited their homes. Celtic warriors were so valued in the ancient world

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 through second arrows at that where we are now Vancouver harbour it was living in the forest canopy was an entirely different world and tree Ranger nature's way of digitizing time so this piece of cedar from the treehouse spans five

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 and formed hard brown clumps. The corpse wasn't putrid, but it didn't exactly smell good, either. So, priests poured tree resin over the body to seal it, massaged it with a waxy mixture that included cedar oil,

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 paper birch, Douglas fir, and western red cedar. I figured the birch and the fir would be connected in a belowground web, but not the cedar. It was in its own other world. And I gathered my apparatus,

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 importing gold, silver, lapis lazuli, and cedar wood. Trade was the unlikely impetus for the invention of the world’s first writing system. It started as a system of accounting for Sumerian merchants

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 expensive cedar wood but it was blank totally unadorned in Egyptian theology a man couldn't enter the afterlife without his name so there's something disturbing about the fact that he was left

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 yakishima cedars like mighty pillars dominating the canopy the ancient cedars found on this island some of the most fascinating trees in the world they look as if they've been sculpted by