Century Quote by Thor Heyerdahl Download Open image “It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.” — Thor Heyerdahl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Cutting Giving Progress Road sign Space
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
“The oaks stand - quite still - so still that the lichen loves them...such solace and solitude seventy-nine miles thick cannot be painted...it is… — Jefferies Richard 1848-1887 Copy Share Image
The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal… — Bob Goodlatte Copy Share Image
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now. — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For… — Shirley Ann Grau Copy Share Image
“A wandering carpenter, called Stone, saw on his travels a gigantic old oak tree standing in a field near an earth-altar. The carpenter said… — Chuang Tzu Copy Share Image
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
“Progress can today be defined as man`s ability to complicate simplicity.” — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
It says in the Bible, in plain words, that God made a self-portrait. He created man in His own image - man and woman… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be. — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet .... No national law, no national precautions can save the planet. The… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
“It was a great moment on board when two large boobies were spotted above the horizon to westward” — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe. — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
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