I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
Every mind should reflect to touch the green of life through trees.
I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.
Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way From a tree's summit
life is like a tree, when you feeling down the leaves fall off.
Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see an...
I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're ...
On a dead tree there are no monkeys.
What an irony it is that these living beings whose shade we sit in, whose fruit we eat, whose limbs we climb, whose roots we water, to whom most of us rarely give a second thought, are so poorly understood. We need to come, as soon as possible, to a ...
When trees fall on trees, the topmost tree must first be removed before others. Don't be too concerned about the problems of the past. What matters most is the challenge at hand now!
If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
Experiencing grief and pain is like falling off a cliff. Everything has been turned upside down, and we are no longer in control. As we fall, we see one and only one tree that is growing out from the rock face. So we grab hold of it and cling to it w...
Hogarth Hughes: [picking up a rock] See this? This is called a rock. Rock. The Iron Giant: [a little rusty] Rock. Hogarth Hughes: Good. The Iron Giant: [picks up a boulder] Rock? Hogarth Hughes: Yes! The Iron Giant: [picks up a tree] Rock. Hogarth Hu...
[sounds of trees 'speaking' is heard] Aragorn: Gimli, lower your axe. Legolas: They have feelings, my friend. The elves began it, waking up the trees, teaching them to speak. Gimli: Talking trees. What do trees have to talk about, hmm... except the c...
Great trees are envied by the wind.
Money grows on the tree of persistence.
The tree makes shafts for axes.
Mistrust is an axe in the tree of love.
A tree falls the way it leans.
It may be a Mountain or a Tree, a River or a Bee . . . learn to enjoy the little things in Life.-RVM
