Best Quote by Howard Jacobson

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

— Elton John

Can't see the wood for the trees

— Proverb

When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a…

— Frederick Lenz

If I'm not the only one who sees something of than a forest, I'm sorry

— Ali

“it's hard to avoid the suspicion that in seeing all the trees I missed the wood”

— Anton Chekhov

I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.

— Sloane Crosley

“You can't see a forest when you're sitting in a tree. You can, however, describe the leaves. That's how you learn to see.”

— Barbara Ware Holmes

You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused…

— Keith Jarrett

If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could…

— Viggo Mortensen

“Single trees are extraordinary; trees in number more extraordinary still. To walk in a wood is to find fault with Socrates's declaration that 'Trees…

— Robert Macfarlane

One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.

— John Cage

Some, can see the forest through the trees. Others, only a single tree, and sadly, some, only the dirt at their feet.

— Eric Nickel