Quotes by Tree How can the seed know that by dying in the soil it will become a great tree? It will not be there to witness the happening. How can the seed know that one day, if it dies, there will be great foliage, green leaves, great branches, and flowers and fruits? How can the seed know? The seed will not be there. The seed has to disappear before it can happen. The seed has never met the tree. The seed has to disappear and die. Only very few people have that much courage. It really needs guts to discover truth. You will die as yourself. You will certainly be born. Rajneesh flowertreepeople A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots. Ray Wilkins emotionrootstree Once you know it, you move as a nonbeing. Nobody can make you angry, nobody can make you happy, unhappy, miserable. No! In that emptiness all dualities dissolve: happy, unhappy, miserable, blissful - all dissolve. This is buddhahood. This is what happened under the bodhi tree to Gautam Siddhartha. He reached emptiness. Then everything is silent. You have gone beyond opposites. A master is to help you to go to your inner emptiness, the inner silence, the inner temple. Rajneesh oppositestreemoving Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be. Raymond Chandler catfashiontree Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. Ray Bradbury sleeptreeanimal In the woods we return to reason and faith. Ralph Waldo Emerson gardennaturetree I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top. Ray Bradbury kickingstarstree Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them. Reinaldo Arenas willingsecrettree Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do you?' asks Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves under the Halloween Tree. 'You don't really know!' Ray Bradbury halloweenclimbingtree Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day. Ralph Waldo Emerson treegivingphilosophy In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing. Remy de Gourmont treemenorder Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment. Rene Dubos decisiontreemen When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty. Renzo Piano citiesfeettree According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world. Richard Allen skytreeworld Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent. Richard Allen treasureaustraliatree It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible? Ralph Waldo Emerson treemenreality I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people. Richard Avedon treemenpeople The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree? Richard Baxter delayabletree This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to properly dispose of vehicle fluids and other contaminating chemical-laden trash, possibly imperiling groundwater and wells. He is junking the law as well as the environment. Richard Blumenthal environmentallawtree I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree. Richard Brinsley Sheridan ivyhatetree«8687888990919293949596»
