“Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.” PeopleVirtueTreeFlowerConsequenceMethodVicesEducatedStrictFragranceEscapingTree Of LifeAdherence Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.” PhilosophyFacesGrowsLossTreeSkyConsequenceErrorsErasPermanentAdoptionPenaltiesConservatismNew Era Author:Warren Buffett
“You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.” TreeConsequenceSeedsBehaveApplesSowingSowing SeedsAvocados Author:Tom Shadyac
“Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.” GoalNaturalEnemyTreeConsequenceMotiveSoilUniformityExemplaryNatural Enemies Book:Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil Source: Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
“Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say.Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- "No, YOU move.” IfsWorldBelieveCountryMatterWholeJobsMovingNationsPrinciplesTreePoliticianConsequenceRiversPressesPlantWhole WorldOddsRequirements Author:J. Michael Straczynski