Tree Quotes - Page 35

• The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.

  Ramakrishna

  Morning, Thinking, Roots

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• Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.

  Chief Seattle

  Rivers, Lasts, Caught

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• What we learned is money doesn't grow on trees.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Grows

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• The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

  John Milton

  Knowing, Grew, Ill

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.218-24.

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• When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.

  Jonathan Swift

  Cutting, Men, Clothes

  Jonathan Swift (1812). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.73

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• We need to go back to our relationship with nature and understand that those trees are our lungs. The earth is recycling as our body. The rivers are our circulation. This air is our breath. And the star stuff, the carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen that comes from distant galaxies is actually the molecules of your body.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stars, Air, Rivers

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 27, 2015.

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• I tell people that I represent the district with a third of the California coast, the biggest trees in the world, some of the best wine grapes in the world, and about 60 percent of the marijuana produced in America.

  Jared Huffman

  Wine, Marijuana, California Coast

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

  Maya Angelou

  Kids, Raising Kids

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• A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Blood, Order, Tyrants

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• I try to keep this in mind when tied in to a rope 75 feet up in a tree... The history of ideas about our place in the universe has been a long series of let-downs for those who like to believe we are special.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Believe, Ideas, Feet

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• I'm Davey. I sing, make faces and swing from trees.

  Davey Havok

  Swings, Faces

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• Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Flower, Escaping, People

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• How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.

  Paul Gauguin

  Blue, Yellow, Shadow

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• Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Winning, Men, Expression

  "Fictional character: Stalker". "Stalker", May 1979.

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• A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.

  Carl Sandburg

  People, Down And

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• When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.

  Dogen

  Plums, World

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• There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."

  Taylor Branch

  Dream, Kings, Icons

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees and saying, "I know what I want. I know what I think." And then suddenly at 11 or 12, the gender role takes hold, and adults tell us, "How clever of you to know what time it is." It happens to boys, too and even sooner - between five and eight. Before that, boys cry and express uncertainty.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Clever, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Humans became easy prey when they moved from the forest to the savanna, which deprived them of the option of climbing trees to flee predators. This shift made it necessary for the men to actively protect the women and their babies. Only as a result of this protection were women able to give birth in shorter intervals, perhaps once every two or three years. This meant that they could produce offspring about twice as frequently as apes. I would be willing to bet that this rapid reproduction is one of the reasons why we dominate the world today, and not the apes.

  Frans de Waal

  Baby, Men, Climbing

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• I didn't jump a lot of trees because I didn't like heights. I liked getting a mirror and walking around with it facing the sky. I'd imagine I was walking in the tops of the trees and falling into the sky, or walking up the stairs whilst going down.

  Beth Orton

  Fall, Mirrors, Sky

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

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• Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.

  Douglas Wilson

  Liars, Order, Missing

  Douglas Jones, Douglas Wilson (1998). “Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth”, p.193, Canon Press & Book Service

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• Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpet our nation's capital, Lady Bird Johnson will be remembered. Only Lady Bird Johnson could, with her vision of a beautiful America, lay claim to spring as her memorial.

  David Mixner

  Beautiful, Country, Spring

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• 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

  Moving, Broken, Doubt

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• Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Night, Black

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• And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they would have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea.

  John Sheridan

  Ideas, Evolution, Pool

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