Dead Tree

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:

    “She’s gone for ever.
    I know when one is dead, and when one lives;
    She’s dead as earth.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family—
    Oh how hideous it is
    To see three generations of one house gathered together!
    It is like an old tree with shoots,
    And with some branches rotted and falling.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)