Tree Quotes - Page 33

According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels of the cosmos, and is found in numerous creation myths in the form of a tree.

The tree is stripped, All color, fragrance gone, Yet already on the bough, Uncaring spring!

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

What do we plant when we plant a tree? A thousand things that we daily see, We plant the spire that out-towers the crag, We plant the staff for our country's flag; We plant the shade from the hot sun free, We plant all these when we plant the tree.

Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree.

Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers.

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.

All changes pass me like a dream, I neither sing nor pray; And thou art like the poisonous tree That stole my life away.

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

My fruit grows on other people’s trees.

It boggles my mind that someone can see life breathed into a baby, watch the grass die and then come to life again, see leaves fall and watch the rebirth of a tree, or gaze on any of the majestic splendor that is this earth and not be overpowered by the presence of an Almighty God!

The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.

I do not expect anyone will ever have the opportunity of constructing another course like Cypress Point, as I do not suppose anywhere in the world is there such a glorious combination of rocky coast, sand dunes, pine woods and cypress trees.