Alternatives Quote by Saul Bellow Download Open image “Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.” — Saul Bellow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alternatives Decision Desirable Grows Imaginary Tree Trees
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots. — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Presently someone is going to discover how to grow an instant tree. It won't be much like the tree that has taken years and… — Ida Cook Copy Share Image
Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you. — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
I'm not an extreme tree-hugger. I do believe trees grow and are a useful agricultural product that can be harvested without damaging the ecology… — John C. Malone Copy Share Image
You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty… — William Jay Gaynor Copy Share Image
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see… — Julius Sterling Morton Copy Share Image
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“But now the emphasis has shifted to making it. People have surrendered their personal moral objectives to government or schools or psychologists. It’s a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable. — Twiggy Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon. — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN. — Harold Covington Copy Share Image
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Maximise the alternative forms in which a user might receive a service, and the alternative sources of supply. — Don Chipp Copy Share Image
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
