Dead tree may refer to:
- Forestry and ecology
- Coarse woody debris, fallen dead trees and the remains of large branches on the ground in forests.
- Large woody debris, logs, branches, and other wood that falls into streams and rivers.
- Snag, a standing, partly or completely dead tree; also trees, branches and other pieces of naturally occurring wood found in a sunken form in rivers and streams.
- Printing
- Book, also called "dead tree edition" or "dead tree book" (humorously)
- Hard copy, the print version (humorously)
Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or tree:
“The years seemed to stretch before her like the land: spring, summer, autumn, winter, spring; always the same patient fields, the patient little trees, the patient lives; always the same yearning; the same pulling at the chain—until the instinct to live had torn itself and bled and weakened for the last time, until the chain secured a dead woman, who might cautiously be released.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“It never had been inside the room,
And only one of the two
Was afraid in an oft-repeated dream
Of what the tree might do.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)