“The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing” LifeDreamLightLife IsLyingReligionTreeRiversStaring Book:Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
“If... Adam had trusted in God and been nourished from the tree of life (Gn. 2:9)? he would not have set aside the immortality that had been granted. For such immortality is eternally preserved by participation in life, since all life is genuine and preserved by appropriate food. The food of that blessed life is 'the bread that came down from heaven and gives life to the world' (Jn. 6:33), just as the inerrant Word Himself declares about Himself in the Gospels.” IfsWorldGivingChristianLife IsHeavenTreeBlessedGenuineBreadGrantedImmortalityAppropriateOrthodoxAdamTrustedParticipationBlessed LifeTree Of Life Author:Maximus the Confessor
“The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.” YearsCountryBeautifulLife IsCultureTreeSignificanceRemindersCherriesBeauty Of LifeFragilityJapanese CultureCherry Blossom Author:Homaro Cantu
“The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living when you come down you may have some doubts.” FeelsLooksMayTodayLife IsNightCitiesDoubtProgressTreeHugeVisualsReally GreatWorth LivingChristmas TreeLife Is Worth Living Author:Gyorgy Kepes
“It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!” PeopleLife IsCoursesCitiesTreeFlowerLovelyGrassTowersMosquitoesPests Author:Arthur Guiterman
“In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought me a box camera which I treasured for years. Initially I clicked trees and nature and as I grew up started noticing prettier things-motorbike, sleek cars and cool girls. But the hamartia of life is when you desire something you cannot afford it and when you are able to afford it you are too old to use it. Now I don't need all gadgets but it's satisfying to know that at least I can afford them.” KnowsNeedsYearsI CanUseAbleLife IsDesireGirlFatherTreeChildhoodCarGrewGrew UpCamerasBoxesObsessedSatisfyingPersuasionNoticingGadgetsTreasuredMotorbikeCool Girl Author:Amitabh Bachchan
“Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?” ThinkingMenWayLastsLife IsSpaceMistakeBreakTreeCryProudBirdSightFishesWoundsOne WayPostsBranchesDesperateSwimFenceThings ChangeAnother WayHolding OnProud ManFence Post Author:Tim Finn
“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
“High trees cast long shadows. The happier and more blessed a woman's life is, the more duz she feel for them that are less blessed than she.” FeelsLongLife IsCompassionTreeShadowBlessedCastsLong Shadows Author:Marietta Holley
“Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but theres a feeling that life is interconnected, that theres life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.” FeelsFeelingsLife IsDesireTermMy OwnVisionTreeRocksIdentityLosingStonesDirtInterconnected Author:Bill Viola
“I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.” KidsTodayLife IsHouseWorryTreeFasterFishingBike Author:John Lasseter