Tree Quotes - Page 24

I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted.

A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.

When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.

The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.

Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Sometimes @BrookeShields rolls into your party dressed as a Christmas tree, carrying a bucket of KFC. pic.twitter.com/DTtZkZY4cB

Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits.

Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just let's pretend we never met before.

Our own economy tells us to take as much as we can get, right? Our own economy says, you're going to be the most successful graduate if you go into the business world and take as much you can get. That's not how nature works. Nature has a much simpler economy. Everything in nature takes what it needs. That's it. You don't see an oak tree gathering up all the resources. An oak tree takes what it needs to be the authentic oak tree it is.

The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.