Quotes by Tree All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud. John Ruskin opinioncloudstree The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill. John Milton grewknowingtree Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf. Jonas Mekas technologytreegiving Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a tree stump in a clearing in the forest. Feel your belly rise or expand gently on the inbreath, and fall or recede on the outbreath. Jon Kabat-Zinn treeanimalfall As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree. Jonathan Weiner safehometree As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not recognize our fundamental need for stability. Trees can be transplanted, often with magnificent results. But their default is to stay. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove brokentreemoving Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement. Jonathan Lethem pagesskytree Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree. Jonathan Safran Foer fruitgratitudetree ...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river. Jonathan Safran Foer riverstreefall Love must blossom. Through love will grow the trees and the bushes. Joost van den Vondel sweet-lovetreesweet I like playing the stuff where I don´t know what I´m gonna play. Like the end of Fake Plastic Trees or the end of Paranoid Android - stuff where I can do anything and no one notices or cares. Jonny Greenwood fakeplaytree I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes. Jonathan Safran Foer dadtreepeople They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum. Joni Mitchell futuretreemuseums No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe John Steinbeck silencefeelingstree Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree. Jorge Valdano treefootballfunny I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it is a slowly growing tree with a kind of really solid heartwood. It has always been a form of sculpture, a symbol for this planet. Joseph Beuys sculpturetreethinking I was a caddy. I also worked as a bouncer, selling Christmas trees at Frank's Nursery and before that, selling what they normally sell. Joseph Bruce nurserysellingtree I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. Joseph Beuys elementstreethinking I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top. Jonathan Swift confidencetreeinspirational The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times. Joseph M. Marshall III treewateryears«5556575859606162636465»
