Tree Quotes - Page 57

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

Maybe I'll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.' Gale who I have never seen cry has tears in his eyes. To keep them from spilling over. I reach forward and press my lips against his. We taste of heat, ashes and misery.

And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.

Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would let it be if we met up At midnight in the hanging tree.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic.

It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me - and I didn't hear it.

Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?

Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and enrich human culture, they are an especially appropriate symbol of the interdependence of spirit and nature.

It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.

They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

Boys need wood to chop.

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's more like imprisonment.

And the tree was happy

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors.

Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.