Quotes by Tree The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included. Paul Strand spacelighttree Astonishment is the root of philosophy. Paul Tillich rootstreephilosophy Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely. Paul Valery plotlighttree You love to listen to the very same things that nailed your supposed Savior to the tree? Paul Washer saviortree Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men--thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall--yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them. Paula Modersohn-Becker powerfultreemen Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness. Paullina Simons growingpaintree I wrote my sonic meditations and started using them with students. I took a bunch of UCSD students out to Joshua Tree and we did the sonic meditations on the boulders. Pauline Oliveros bouldersmeditationtree I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today. Penelope Keith grandchildrennaturetree Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves. Periander good-lifejudgingtree I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity. Percy Bysshe Shelley infinitytreethinking That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment. Pema Chodron ordinarytreeanimal Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something. Penn Jillette iceriverstree Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads. It's like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs. Pema Chodron selftreebird Those trees seem to grow every year. Peter Alliss golftreeyears When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God. Pete Seeger mirrorshousetree In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than a very restricted financial function. London, in that sense, is akin to the notorious upas tree, a fabulous Javanese tree so poisonous that it destroys all life for many miles around itself. Peter Dicken citieskingdomstree I could not chop down a tree if my life depended on it. Peter Falk ifstree The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees Peter Drucker fruittreepeople In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike. Paulo Coelho journeytreetwo To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. Peter Drucker foreststreeknowledge«8182838485868788899091»
