Tree Quotes - Page 29

Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree."

The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.

We never could design a building as beautiful as the trees.

The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray.

Everybody that I meet inspires me. You can learn so much from any person that you meet any day on the side of the street.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

Our lives are merely trees of possibilities.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

Fame is like a tree. It helps you get pussy.

Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old.

That's why I was out in the streets. To make sure no one else was there.

The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid's cabin looked like an iced cake.

We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves.

As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease.

We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.

The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.