Tree Of Life Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Tree, Guilt, States

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man

  George Nakashima

  Mean, Men, Tree

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• Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit appear at the same time, full of refreshment for sense and for soul.

  Lucy Larcom

  Loyalty, Sweet, Growing Up

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• I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Animal, Intelligent, Thinking

  Interview with Peter Tyson, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2004.

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• Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.

  Sadat X

  Rap, Hip Hop, Tree

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• The groves were God's first temples.

  William C. Bryant

  Nature, Tree, Firsts

  William Cullen Bryant, Thomas G. Voss (1975). “The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: 1865-1871”, p.49, Fordham Univ Press

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• And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

  John Milton

  Life, Tree, Middle

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 192

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• But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Sunday, Tree, Crosses

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• One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Educational, Men

  1798 'The Tables Turned', stanzas 6-8.

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• In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can be compared to a complex wheel-work, such as a watch which ceases to exist if it is stamped down in a mortar. No, in its primitive form life is like fire, like a flame borne by the living substance;-like a flame which appears in endless diversity and yet has specificity within it;-which can adopt the form of the organic world, of the lank grass-leaf and of the stem of the tree.

  Martinus Beijerinck

  Life, Science, Fire

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• I've studied Kabbalah, as you know, for many years, so there are a lot of things I do that one would associate with practising Judaism. I hear the Torah every Saturday. I observe Shabbat. I say certain prayers. My son was bar mitzvahed. So this appears like I'm Jewish, but these rituals are connected to what I describe as the Tree of Life consciousness and have more to do with the idea of being an Israelite, not Jewish.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Prayer, Son, Years

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• I worked on "Tree of Life." It was just magical. It was like a little family. A fleeting, beautiful alliance to forge something meaningful. It was amazing, like a transcendental experience to be on the set.

  Sam Pressman

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Tree

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

  Alicia Vikander

  Teacher, Stars, Two

  "TIFF FUTURES: ‘Anna Karenina’ and ‘A Royal Affair’ Star Alicia Vikander is Getting Her Fair Share of Corset Training". www.indiewire.com. September 07, 2012.

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• The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.

  Arthur Middleton

  Fall, Men, Medicine

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• What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far on Earth belongs to the same tree. We share genes with mushrooms and oak trees and fish and bacteria that live in volcanic vents and so on that it's all the same life descended from a common origin. What we want is a second tree of life. We want alien life, alien not necessarily in the sense of having come from space, but alien in the sense of belonging to a different tree altogether. That is what we're looking for, "life 2.0."

  Paul Davies

  Mushrooms, Space, Tree

  Source: bigthink.com

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  It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Nature, Heart, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4945, e-artnow

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• Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Stars, Cutting, Roots

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• Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks.

  John Milton

  Flower, Men, Rivers

  John Milton (2012). “Paradise Lost”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• "One impulse from a vernal wood

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Tree, Woods

  1798 'The Tables Turned', stanzas 6-8.

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• Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved."

  Max Delbruck

  Taught Us, Tree, Details

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• I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Winter, Eight

  'Walden' (1854) 'Winter Visitors'

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• Earth allows several levels for Soul to gain experience in life, including the mineral, plant, fish, animal and human stages.

  Harold Klemp

  Animal, Tree, Soul

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• Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!

  Casper Van Dien

  Mother, Eye, Color

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• It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig of the tree of life, namely ours, having a big brain happened to have advantages. But that's just what worked for a particular species of primate 5 to 7 million years ago.

  Steven Pinker

  Ideas, Years, Tree

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• No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

  John Muir

  Cutting, Tree, Church

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.237, Library of America

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