Alexander Chee

The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness.

American Writer

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

In treating of the oak, I have considered that the species of it growing in warm climates is superior to that which is produced in cold countries. But we must not imagine this to be the case with all woods; on the contrary, the fir timber grown in cold countries is superior to that produced in warm ones, where its growth is rapid.

Dutch Scientist

John Muir

All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.

American Environmentalist

Michael Shnayerson

In the hierarchy of public lands, national parks by law have been above the rest: America's most special places, where natural beauty and all its attendant pleasures - quiet waters, the scents of fir and balsam, the hoot of an owl, and the dark of a night sky unsullied by city lights - are sacrosanct.

American Journalist

Monty Don

I think that the essence of a Christmas wreath - of all Christmas vegetative decoration - has to be green and, if possible, living. So the basis of a wreath is ideally holly, laurel, ivy, rosemary, larch, fir or whatever is to hand.

English Celebrity

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

Diego Klattenhoff

I grew up working on farms. You'd do anything for money. You'd pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you'd cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp.

Canadian Actor

Firs are often associated with Christmas in many cultures, making them a festive symbol.

Christmas Connection

Fir trees are a common sight in cold, mountainous regions, evoking images of rugged nature.

Outdoor Imagery

Despite being evergreens, some firs can change color or lose needles, especially when diseased.

Not Always Green

Fir wood is known for its strength, durability, and resistance to decay, useful for building.

Durable Wood

Fir wood has a straight, pronounced grain, making it visually attractive for woodworking.

Grain Texture

Fir wood is relatively easy to work with, commonly used in furniture and construction.

Workability Factor

 they get buried in the snow and gradually become part of the glacier, sinking deeper and deeper into the ice. As these caves form and melt their way up into the ice, they make these artifacts rain down from the ceiling and fall onto the cave floor, where we end up finding them. For example, this is a noble fir seed we found.

Eddy Cartaya: My glacier...

 typically spreads something like this. Flames ravage the thick understory provided by species like douglas fir, a shade-tolerant tree that's able to thrive under the canopy of lodgepole pines. The fire uses these smaller trees as a step ladder to reach the higher canopy of old lodgepole pines.

Why certain naturally...

 and fir branches to paint with his red offering, but he resolved to try his best. Meanwhile, Tecciztecatl flaunted his riches, using magnificent jade spines and branches adorned with iridescent quetzal feathers for his own blood offering. When four days had passed, the fire was roaring high.

The Aztec myth of the...

 old business looks like it's a fir huh if he's not comfortable with what he's kidding I'm not comfortable with it and how do I make that work that's how you barter back and forth in our bond our Brotherhood our friendship stay strong

A Visit to the Leather...

 sure you get income generation how do I mean if you have a plot of land that you want to plant tomatoes you can only plant tomatoes on one layer but remember we plot in the air how far is the sky really fir how high can you plants

Grow your food in the...

 keeping them snug throughout the night you would think that their striking reddish orange coat would make them stand out but within their environment the fir trees are covered in a type of white lichen and reddish-brown moss so

Otters Have a Favourite...

 pieces of beech, cherry, elm, fir, larch, lime, mahogany, oak and walnut. The gondola makers began with a wooden template that may have been hammered into the workshop floor generations earlier.

Corruption, wealth and...

 out of beams of pine and fir from Mount Etna, ropes from hemp grown in Spain, and pitch from France. The top deck, on which eight watchtowers were to stand, was to be supported not by columns,

The real story behind...

 and as I suspected, silence. Cedar was in its own world. It was not connected into the web interlinking birch and fir. I was so excited,

How trees talk to each...

 look at that ha ha that's amazing singing chamber whoo oh I like all the trees in the forest hemlock fir cedar and pine