Quotes by Tree In golf I am one under; one under a tree, one under a rock, and one under a bush. Gerry Cheevers rocksgolftree 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. Georgia O'Keeffe colortreeart I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic. Geri Halliwell gardenreadingtree If only people were trees… I might like them better. Georgia O'Keeffe treemightpeople From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not recognize me as something apart from them, and I was happy, so happy, because for the first time in years, and forevermore, I had not killed, and never would. George Saunders treebirdyears Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails. George Carlin whalesbeestree Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor. Giambattista Basile brokentreefall Great trees are good for nothing but shade. George Herbert shadetree When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals. Gerhard Richter treeanimalreality I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the objective world, as human beings, never really exists as we see and understand it. Matter exists, of course, but has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meanings that we attach to it. We can know only that a cup is a cup, that a tree is a tree. Giorgio Morandi treebelieveworld 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-- Gilbert K. Chesterton secretcloudstree Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism. Giovanni Ruffini javaislandstree I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree. George Washington cuttingtreelying And if we seem nutty to you and if we seem like an odd ball to you, just remember one thing. The mighty oak tree was once a nut just like me. Glenn Turner ballsnutstree Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch. George Herbert branchestree A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair at the foot of the ambrosial tree, and a serpent entwined among the heavily-laden boughs, presenting to them some of the fruit from his mouth. Godfrey Higgins drawingfeettree The tightrope of love swings back and forth, forever tied between the tree of anxiety and the tree of fear. Like life, it holds a constant reminder that death must be overcome. Goliarda Sapienza swingsanxietytree Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree. George Orwell nutstreelying Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree. Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra disciplinerootstree Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree. George Washington presidentialfitnesstree«3233343536373839404142»
