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:
“Here is the ancient floor,
Footworn and hollowed and thin
Here was the former door
Where the dead feet walked in.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“Sin, guilt, neurosis—they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)