Contact Quote by George Nakashima Download Open image “A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.” — George Nakashima ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contact Forests Humanity Intimate Nature Plant Tree Trees Woodworking
Trees ask us to examine how we live in the natural world, with one another, and intrapersonally. — Greg Reitman Copy Share Image
Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone. — Jens Jensen Copy Share Image
Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and enrich human… — Steven Clark Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is a sense in the tree which feels your love and responds to it. It does not respond or show its pleasure in… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Trees are complicated, fascinating things, usually older and more beautiful than any of us. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible. — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest… — Flower A. Newhouse Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
