“Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it suddenly lunges at you, teeth bared. You are frightened and angry. But then you notice that one of its legs is caught in a trap. Immediately your mood shifts from anger to concern: You see that the dog's aggression is coming from a place of vulnerability and pain. This applies to all of us. When we behave in hurtful ways, it is because we are caught in some kind of trap. The more we look through the eyes of wisdom at ourselves and one another, the more we cultivate a compassionate heart.” WayLooksHeartKindEyePainImagineTreeDogWalkingApproachSittingConcernAngryCaughtLegsWoodsMoodTeethBehaveVulnerabilityFrightenedCompassionateAggressionTrapsHurtfulThrough The EyesSmall Dogs Author:Tara Brach
“As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.” DoeParentLinesMemoriesImagineProgressTreeIntelligentAnalogiesGood MemoriesSplittingAmoebaLife Line Author:Hugh Everett III
“The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.” StillsBeautifulYoungLife IsGrowsSidesImagineFailingTreeFlowerTasteFutureDegreesWasteFruitDisappearAdmireOpeningDesertButterflyPausesLife Is LikeLanesBleakTemptingYoung LifeBeautiful Butterfly Author:George Augustus Henry Sala
“When I stepped away from the white pine, I had the definite feeling that we had exchanged some form of life energy. ... Clearly white pines and I are on the same wavelength. What I give back to the trees I cannot imagine. I hope they receive something, because trees are among my closest friends.” GivingFeelingsFormEnergyWhiteImagineTreeClosestDefiniteGiving BackClosest FriendsWavelength Author:Anne LaBastille
“If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling.” IfsGivingShouldWellsMayStatesFeelingsHeavenSunImagineTreeObjectsSweetFlowerEternalBlessedShiningFruitGoldenSilverOrangeLoadedMetaphoricalGroveFruitionAllusion Author:Humphry Davy
“The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.” EarthBeautifulSpaceImagineTreeSizeChristmasAstronautMarbleOrnamentsBlacknessChristmas TreeBeautiful Earth Author:James Irwin
“I didn't jump a lot of trees because I didn't like heights. I liked getting a mirror and walking around with it facing the sky. I'd imagine I was walking in the tops of the trees and falling into the sky, or walking up the stairs whilst going down.” FallImagineTreeSkyWalkingMirrorsHeightStairs Author:Beth Orton
“If you remove a treehouse from a tree, than it's just a shitty house. Sometimes when i'm in a shitty house, I like to imagine that it's in a tree, than it's like Woah, this house is amazing.” IfsSometimesHouseImagineTreeRemoveImagine ThatTreehouses Author:Demetri Martin
“I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But now I think about just sitting in a tree and doing nothing all day and probably not even seeing a deer. Not moving and sitting in a tree? That seems rough.” ThinkingI CanSeemsMovingUsedImagineSeeingTreeSittingKillingAwfulRoughHuntingDoing NothingDeerDeer Hunting Author:Joel Stein
“There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account, unless you can imagine apple and orange trees with Nike sneakers on their roots, racing past the magnolias and primitive mammals, leaving the ginkgoes back there with the dinosaurs when the Flood waters began to rise.” PastOrderFoundWaterRecordsImagineTreeEvolutionRootsAccountsPlantSpeciesLeavingApplesRacingRelativePrimitiveFloodOrangeDinosaursGeologyMammalsSneakersNikeMagnoliasApples And OrangesOrange Trees Author:Frank Zindler