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Tree Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It…
- A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out…
- Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on…
- The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following…
- There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.
- Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour,…
- A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with…
- Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything…
- Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the…
- Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common…
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- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
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- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause… — Al Alvarez
- Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to… — Rajneesh
- Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot