The message, of course, is that Mr. Bush likes hugging trees almost as much as he does African-American schoolchildren.

Too busy hugging trees to practice swordsmanship, the Hound snarled to himself.

Switch isn't here to tell you to start hugging trees and become an eco-warrior - although it's fine, if that's what you're into.

It's no longer about hugging trees because they're good, but because you have hard data in a language more effective in the public dialogue.

The Aurin might be into hugging trees, but they're more than ready to bare tooth and claw to defend their new home on Nexus.

She thought these thoughts to herself as in her mind's eye she ran naked through the woods, hugging trees.

"I was not out in the woods hugging trees," he said.

Protesters arrested during the tree felling - some of them hugging trees - are due in court on Jan. 23.