Tree Quotes - Page 36

• I want a big 25-foot pink statue that holds my grave. Or I also might like the way the Indians did it. They hang you up on the top of a tree and the birds eat you. No, really I would probably choose cremating.

  Jack Nicholson

  Feet, Bird, Want

  Source: the-talks.com

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• The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having arboreta where we have trees, all these things have been promoted. Even getting the complete genetic code of various fishes so we can let them pass away and then we'll pull them back. That is science fiction run amok.

  E. O. Wilson

  Running, Zoos, Animal

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done.

  Peter King

  Jobs, Taken, Thinking

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• In honor of Al Gore, green tea, not Tea Party, but Al Gore green tea. And by the way, it's tree hugger-approved.

  Eric Bolling

  Party, Tea, Honor

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness There is a poem, there is a song. Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring. When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with The music of many leaves, Which in due season fall and are blown away. And this is the way of life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Beautiful, Song, Time

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Forests, Awareness, Learning To Trust

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• Go on, fair Science; soon to thee
  Shall Nature yield her idle boast;
  Her vulgar lingers formed a tree,
  But thou hast trained it to a post.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Nature, Science, Yield

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• Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun.

  Adi Shankara

  Spiritual, Fire, Light

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• The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees.

  Phillip Adams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Tombstone

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• Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point

  Abigail Adams

  Beautiful, Nature, Wind

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.212

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• I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in letters on the little trees/ The story of my love, and as the trees/ Will grow letters too will grow, to cry/ In a louder voice the story of my love.

  Virgil

  Song, Voice, Letters

  Virgil (2015). “The Eclogues of Virgil”, p.53, Macmillan

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• The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.

  James Irwin

  Beautiful, Christmas, Space

  "Astronomically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Astronomy and Physics" by C.C. Gaither and Alma E Cavazos-Gaither, (p. 262), 2003.

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• And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.

  Seth

  Real, Focus, Woodpeckers

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• Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.

  William Boyd

  World, Growing, Definitions

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• Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live, they can not tell you ; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live for, if he knows , he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live , do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so.

  John Norman

  Wise, Men, Answers

  John Norman (2011). “Marauders of Gor: Gor”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• Knowledge does not grow like a tree where you dig a hole, plant your feet, cover them with dirt, and pour water on them daily. Knowledge grows with time, work, and dedicated effort. It cannot come by any other means.

  Ed Parker

  Mean, Feet, Water

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• Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

  John Sexton

  Thinking, Artist, Numbers

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• O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.

  Thomas Campbell

  Barren, Spots, Spares

  'The Beech-Tree's Petition'.

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• If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Fall, Humor

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• "Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

  Robert Townsend

  Top Management, Owl, Forests

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• If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

  Susan George

  Cutting, Matter, Forests

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• I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

  Kate Atkinson

  Believe, Mean, Buddhism

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• It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

  Francis Bacon

  Dust, Wheels, Action

  Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1999). “The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral”, p.119, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?

  William Morris

  Wall, Thinking, Two

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.6494, Delphi Classics

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• Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.

  Sting

  Philosophy, Ocean, Desert

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