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“Children should be encouraged to search out in nature the objects that illustrate Bible teachings, and to trace in the Bible the similitudes drawn from nature. They should search out, both in nature and in Holy Writ, every object representing Christ, and those also that He employed in illustrating truth. Thus may they learn to see Him in tree and vine, in lily and rose, in sun and star. They may learn to hear His voice in the song of birds, in the sighing of the trees, in the rolling thunder, and in the music of the sea. And every object in nature will repeat to them His precious lessons.”

“You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It's so small and so fragile - you realize that on that small spot is everything that means everything to you; all of history and art and death and birth and love.”

Mean Art Earth Black Realizing White Tree Sky Birth And Love Blue Spots Fragile Ornaments Christmas Tree White Christmas Blue And White History And Art

Author:Rusty Schweickart

“A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.”

Mean Hate Natural Enemy Tree Regard Destroyed Settlers Natural Enemies

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel.”

Philosophy Study Tree Sitting Navel

Author:Orlando Bloom

“These are the roots of trees, O monks, these are empty huts. Meditate, monks, do not be negligent, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.”

Tree Regret Roots Empty Instruction Monk Huts You Will Regret

Author:Gautama Buddha

“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.”

Philosophy Faces Grows Loss Tree Sky Consequence Errors Eras Permanent Adoption Penalties Conservatism New Era

Author:Warren Buffett

“How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simple human language. With what a sigh of relief one leaves this world of cassocks, and kissing and church gossip. As soon as one leaves, one sees: wet bare branches, fog which floats over fields, trees, homes. Sky. Early dusk. And it all tells an incredibly simple truth.”

“One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.”

Tree Wind Weak Overcoming Delusion

Author:Gautama Buddha

“With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country's inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem - and largely a hindrance, not an asset.”

People Men Country Values Animal Tree Core Assets Biblical Worldview Pagan Ecosystems Demise Hindrance Core Values Inception Reverting

Author:Dennis Prager

“I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.”

Tree Feet Pure Notes Dropping

Author:Virgil Thomson

“I have always had a reputation for being frugal - less kind people might call me cheap. But my interest in building up a nest egg goes back to those days in Arnhem when I learned that money can grow, just like trees.”

People Kind Might Grows Interest Tree Building Reputation Eggs Call Me Nests Building Up Frugal Kind People

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.”

Fall Grows Natural Tree Guilt Falling In Love Oneself Leafs Complication Perfectly Natural

Author:David Ignatow

“The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing, but the roots are still here.”

People Has Beens Cutting Growing Tree Fans Roots Originals Canada Somewhere Else

Author:Russell Peters

“[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.”

Knows Reason Done Shows Can Do Poor Know How Tree Fool Cease Reason Why Cows

Author:William of Conches

“A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.”

House Names Tree Towns Legs Landscape Grass Infinity Ants Afar Tiles

Author:Blaise Pascal

“I want the kids who watch 'One Tree Hill' to know that it's all pretend, and that the person at the core of that character values morals, honor and things like that. You want to inspire them to look beyond what is superficial and try to find that greater thing.”

Knows Want Trying Looks Persons Character Kids Values Moral Watches Greater Tree Inspire Honor Core Hills Superficial Greater Things Tree Hill

Author:Hilarie Burton

“I will never say a bad word about 'One Tree Hill'. The entire shape of my world changed because of that show, so I'll always be very affectionate toward it.”

World Shows Tree Changed Shapes Hills Affectionate Bad Word Tree Hill

Author:Hilarie Burton

“Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging . . . I suppose it's lust, but it's awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.”

Passion Tree Wind Holy Wave Lust Awful Branches Fierce Lightning Thunder Roaring Thunder And Lightning Bare Branches

Book:A Life of One's Own

Source: A Life of One's Own

“When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.”

Tree Humility Eighty Wildlife

Author:James Balog

“...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees.”

People Thinking Tree Conquer Grass Agriculture

Book:The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Source: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

“I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds.”

Ideas Tree Teaching Bird Complicated Cunning Live Simply

Author:Rajneesh

“I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.”

People Ifs Believe Stills Sometimes Matter Hard Enough Sound Tree Flower Listening Quiet Bird I Still Believe

Book:In Cold Blood

Source: In Cold Blood

“There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.”

Made Tree Cherries Cherry Trees

Author:Ruskin Bond

“I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. During lunch hour at school I'd avoid social interactions by sitting on the bathroom sink and reading. My mother worked in my school cafeteria. When my anxiety got really bad, I'd put a coat on, grab my book and a flashlight, and hide in the freezer with the mac and cheese.”

“The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.”

Thinking Children Moments Mother Three Courses Tree Childhood Scene My Favorite Seconds Tree Of Life

Author:Paul Auster

“I think some modesty actually serves me by just accepting that I am an instrument. I'm not trying to match up to an ideal as some kind of challenge. It's more like I use the family tree of music and song that I feel has fit me as an encouragement; like it's a bed to rest in rather than a challenge to try to better myself over, to try to.”

Thinking Feels Trying Kind Use Song Challenges Accepting Tree Fit Bed Ideals Encouragement Instruments Modesty

Author:Mirah

“With time environmental issues got much more complicated. It is pretty easy, if you know what you are doing, to stop a company from pouring poison into a lake where kids swim. It is much harder to address all the myriad greenhouse gases emitted by different sources - from petrochemical refineries to hundreds of millions of peasants cutting down trees for their incredibly inefficient cook stoves.”

“Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely green, tropical landscape: the ocean nearby, the giant banyan trees. It all felt part of one seamless mystery to me.”

Felt Imagination Church Growing Up Growing Mystery Tree Ocean Catholic Green Landscape Giants My Imagination Catholic Church Embedded Tropical Seamless

Author:Karen Russell

“Well, I believe that "thinking" is just as real a phenomenon in the world as anything else, and just as worthy of exploration. Maybe even more? So writing about "thought" to me is like writing about a tree or anything else real.”

Thinking World Writing Believe Wells Real I Believe Tree Worthy Phenomenon Exploration

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“Donald Trump is a big Christmas gift wrapped under the tree for Hillary Clinton. She desperately hopes she runs against Donald Trump. I, however, am the lump of coal in Mrs. Clinton's stocking, and she desperately hopes she does not run against me.”

Doe Bigs Running Tree Trump Clinton Coal Lumps Stockings Christmas Gift

Author:Carly Fiorina

“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.”

Thinking I Can Seems Moving Used Imagine Seeing Tree Sitting Killing Awful Rough Hunting Doing Nothing Deer Deer Hunting

Author:Joel Stein

“I hit my knees every morning and every night to give thanks for being alive and all the blessings I have. And in the middle of chaos, it's been suggested to me to stop and truly look around, notice the sky, the trees, the grass, and realize you're part of it all, which is hard when you really want to focus on what you think is bothering you. However, one of the smartest things I do is check in with my awesome wife, who is really good at screwing my head back on when needed.”

Thinking Want Giving Looks Hard Night Realizing Morning Focus Alive Wife Tree Sky Middle Needed Blessing Chaos Checks Thanks Bother Grass Knees Every Night Every Morning Bothering You

Author:Patrick Fabian

“Think about how long it took for the mountains to get there and look so beautiful. Think about how long it takes for this tree over us to grow. We're so impatient. Think about it. This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.”

Thinking Looks Long Beautiful Grows Perfect Forever Alive Progress Tree Mountain Leafs Impatient Work In Progress

Author:Daphne Zuniga

“My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.”

Thinking Men Children Two Father Black Saws Seeing Tree Streets Businessman Vagrants

Author:Toni Morrison

“Playfulness. We've baked Mallomars and Rice Krispies treats, made milkshakes, and even built a macaron cake in the shape of a Christmas tree. These items remind people of their childhood; we just re-create them with adult flavors.”

People Made Tree Childhood Shapes Adults Built Treats Cake Flavor Items Rice Playfulness Christmas Tree Milkshakes Rice Krispies

Author:David Castle

“I would use going into nature to clear myself - trees and plants including having plants at your house is a wonderfully natural way to continuously clear yourself.”

Way Use House Natural Clear Tree Plant Including

Author:Doreen Virtue

“In the old days of America when communities were separated by hundreds of miles, why were they able to thrive? Because if it was harvest time and the farmer was up in the tree picking apples and fell down and broke his leg, everybody pitched in and harvested his crops for him. If somebody got killed by a bear, everybody took care of their family.”

Ifs Care Able America Community Tree Bears Down And Legs Miles Broke Apples Thrive Farmers Harvest Crops Old Days Harvest Time

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Every year my mom takes her 5th grade class on an outdoor education trip, and ever since I was born, I came with her. One thing I remember the most was this long, old rickety bridge held by two redwood trees. In order to get to the camp fire, you had to cross it. Each time I went across I made my brother carry me on his shoulders. It freaked me out sooooo much, even a little now when I think about it.”

Thinking Years Littles Long Made Two Remember Order Born Class Fire One Thing Tree Brother Mom Crosses My Mom Shoulders Bridges My Brother Grades Camps Redwoods

Author:Zendaya

“You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.”

Needs Sound Tree Land Return Comfort Plant Zone Comfort Zone Cheesy Midwest Watercolors

Author:Lissie

“Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.”

Thinking Mind Humans Doe Reality Bits Pieces Cutting Tree Good And Bad Bits And Pieces Thinking Mind

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I enjoy going to Starbucks, having a cup of coffee, sitting in my car, driving from here to there, sitting at home looking at the trees, going for a walk with a dog. It's all very enjoyable.”

Home Enjoy Walks Tree Dog Car Sitting Coffee Driving Cups Enjoyable Coffee Cup Starbucks Car Driving

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself!”

Way Found Easy Tree Green Surface Manage Tall Orchard Manure Take It Easy Citrus Tall Trees

Author:Masanobu Fukuoka

“Those who take knowledge to be a whole zoo of sub-disciplines will react to my giving metaphysics a privileged position in that zoo or to my thinking of knowledge as a tree, with more and less fundamental parts.”

Thinking Giving Whole Tree Position Discipline Fundamentals Metaphysics Privileged Zoos

Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree.”

Form Tree Discipline Roots Fundamentals Metaphysics Theoretical

Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“Nature is good for all of us. When we're exposed to trees and other natural settings - even within the city, it fosters creativity.”

Natural Cities Creativity Tree Setting Settings Exposed

Author:David Livermore

“Truthfully, I love being in the jungle. I love it when the make-up artists come to set, they come equipped with dirt and sweat. I spend my days climbing trees and I can crawl out of bed and walk on set and that's exactly all I have to look like.”

Looks I Can Artist Walks Love Is Tree Bed Climbing Sweat Dirt Jungle Climbing Trees Make Up Artist

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“The tree doesn't die, nor do I when you cut off a branch or a finger, we both heal so we don't lose all the sap or blood. That to me is total shock. Also that water defies the laws of physics by becoming less dense when frozen. Life really is a miracle and all the things that are been built into us through it.”

Law Dies Water Loses Cutting Tree Blood Becoming Built Miracle Fingers Physics Heal Branches Shock Frozen Dense Sap Laws Of Physics

Author:Bernie Siegel

“I'm sort of a cavedweller: I miss my house, my yard, my kitchen, my wife. The trees. When I get home, I like to get down into my office neighborhood as soon as I can.”

I Can Home House Wife Tree Missing Office My Wife Kitchen Neighborhood Yards

Author:John Darnielle

“Maybe the American Dream is too rich for us now in the U.S. Maybe we're losing it because we are not like our Swedish grandmother who came across the plains, hacked down the trees, and took the Spanish words she encountered and made them hers. Now her great-great-grandchildren sit terrified, wondering what to do with all these Mexicans. The American Dream is an impossible affirmation of possibility. And maybe native-born Americans don't have it anymore. Maybe it has run through their fingers.”

Made Dream Running Born Wonder Rich Impossible Tree Possibility Losing Fingers Native Grandmother American Dream Terrified Affirmation Grandchildren Swedish Hacked Great Grandchildren

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“There was a stage inside it and a crank on the outside that would rotate something, like a tiny tree carved of cork, onto the stage, and then the thousands of little mirrors would multiply that one tree so that the viewer would see an infinite forest instead.”

Littles Tree Stage Infinite Mirrors Tiny Forests Viewers Crank Cork

Author:Danielle Dutton

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