Quotes by Tree To wonder where the mind goes after the brain decays is as silly as asking where the 70-miles-per-hour have gone after a speeding auto has crashed into a tree. Frank Zindler brainsillytree Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture. François-René de Chateaubriand treemenideas We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt. Franz Kafka statesguilttree Forests are the lungs of our land. Franklin D. Roosevelt earth-daylandtree I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me Frank Herbert fruitfeelingstree The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk. Francis Bacon differencestreescience One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision. Frederick Hart passing-bywalltree This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel in my toes how its roots grip the earth. Frederick Franck applesrootstree For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance. Franz Kafka treesnowlying Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives. Franklin D. Roosevelt supportwisdomtree Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. "You eat this apple; you're going to be as smart as God." We can't have that. Frank Zappa applessmarttree I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting. Fredrika Bremer pioneersrootstree Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it. Franz Kafka complainingtreefall I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers. Friedrich Holderlin flowertreesong Everybody has asked the question, ... 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! You're doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, ... let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. Frederick Douglass applestreefall On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks! Friedrich Nietzsche eaglessolitudetree The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell. Friedrich Nietzsche rootstreeheaven We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die. Freya Stark sapmagictree We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too. Freeman Dyson carbon-cycletreescience We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us. Franz Kafka two-sidestreefall«2829303132333435363738»
