Perception Quote by Samuel Alexander

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

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

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

I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth…

— Jane Goodall

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

We never see anything completely. We never see a tree, we see the tree through the image that we have of it, the concept…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“It is true that our everyday view of the world is not quite naively realistic, but that is what it would like to be.…

— Anonymous

A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in…

— Gretel Ehrlich

In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.

— Robert Henri

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

— Jane Goodall

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this…

— Brian Swimme