Tree Quotes

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I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees. — Constantin Brancusi
How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are… — Alain de Botton
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth — John Ford
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… — Steven Pinker
Last night I dreamed that I came face to face with a picture I had done and forgotten, a forest done in simple movement, just… — Emily Carr
Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows. — Emily Carr
The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to… — Anthony de Mello
Like the hollow nothingness within the seed of a tree, which contains the potential of the entire tree, the experience of nothingness in the unmanifest… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to… — Robert Lowell
I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canvas... Within me sounded the… — Wassily Kandinsky
When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality… — Gerhard Richter
They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human… — Anna Deavere Smith
Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought. — Dorothy Richardson
Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers. — Alana Beard
I think every coach has to adapt to what they have, because they're what you get. You can't just go out to the player tree… — Matt Millen
As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the… — Chanakya
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. — Matthew McConaughey
That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf,… — Joan Miro
However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not… — Walter J. Phillips
Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree. It is indeed "good-bye to summer" when the bluebirds… — Neltje Blanchan

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