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“In the military it was camouflage for the desert or the winter. And now it's the duck hunting colors - I think it's "real tree." It's comfortable. It's stuff that's made out of comfortable material, OK, and I'm comfortable in it.”

Thinking Made Real Stuff Tree Military Color Materials Comfortable Winter Desert Hunting Ducks Camouflage Duck Hunting

Author:Si Robertson

“Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes, completely artificial ones, imaginary landscapes. And how did he choose them? Well, he had the balance of trees, of lawns, of houses in the distance. He had a balance of small objects, big objects, big trees in front and his balance of objects at every scale is what gives to Poussin a special feeling.”

“I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.”

Gone Cutting Violence Tree Grew Absence Shock Farmers Firewood

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.”

Ifs Years Violence Tree One Day Incredibles Shock

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“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.”

“To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.”

Way Feels Able Walks Tree Garden Branches Old Trees Tree Planting Plants And Trees Tree Branches

Author:Mirabel Osler

“It was a testament to the resilience of humanity. Give a man a tree and he will make it into a boat; give him a leaf and he will curve it into a cup and drink water from it; give him a rock and he will make a weapon to protect himself and his family. Give a man a small box and a limit of 140 characters to type into it, and he will adapt it to fight an oppressive dictatorship in the Middle East.”

Source: Hatching Twitter

“The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees.”

Christian Tree Information Internet Radio Mail Telephones Christian Right

Author:Michael Scanlon

“Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a coolibar tree, And he sang as he sat and waited for his billy-boil, You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.”

Song Tree Sat Shade Popular Song Jolly

Author:Banjo Paterson

“To wonder where the mind goes after the brain decays is as silly as asking where the 70-miles-per-hour have gone after a speeding auto has crashed into a tree.”

Mind Hours Brain Wonder Gone Tree Asking Miles Silly Decay Speeding

Author:Frank Zindler

“How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of it. As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?”

Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man

“Just because you may not see this big, grand show or you may not fall down a tree and all of a sudden get miraculously healed, that doesn't mean the miraculous isn't all around you.”

May Mean Shows Bigs Fall Tree Miraculous Falling Down Healed

Author:DeVon Franklin

“If I want to put a Christmas tree in my yard, or three crosses for the crucifixion story, that's fine. But if I try to use public property or a public school as a way to impress my religion on other people, I think that violates the constitution.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Trying Stories Use School Three Tree Fine Crosses Constitution Property Impress Yards Public School Crucifixion Christmas Tree

Author:John Shelby Spong

“I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.”

Way Used Tree Photograph

Author:Robert Barry

“After I did the drawings of trees combining them with words, I started doing - I did that for a very short time. Then it kind of - that sort of evolved into just showing the branches of a tree coming down into the trunk and then going into the root system. So I showed both the branches and the roots of a tree, which were about equal. There is as much going on under the ground as is going on above the ground, which you can see.”

Kind Tree Equal Roots Drawing Branches Short Time Trunks Combining

Author:Robert Barry

“The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object, but it is an object with a history and it is loaded with all kinds of implications and ideas. They exist in the world in a very special way. So they kind of represent some aspect of the world that we perceive, as do photographs, as do drawings of trees or whatever. And they are not a one to one. They are not the world, but they kind of refer to the world and they also exist in the world.”

World Way Firsts Kind Mean Ideas Tree Special Objects Aspect Photograph Drawing All Kinds Perceive Implications Loaded

Author:Robert Barry

“For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are created through relationships and processes. They are not inherent in electrons or photons or quanta any more than they are inherent in soil or trees or people. So my critique of reductionistic science is a critique that I have inherited from my scientific training. But it has been deepened by my experiences as an ecologist, in seeing the ecological destruction taking place today.”

People World Way Has Beens Ideas Today Process Seeing Tree Example Objects Training Destruction Property Fixed Soil Quantum Inherent Critique Ecological Electrons Photons

Author:Vandana Shiva

“Brilliant thoughts flow with a life of their own to a dedicated reasoning predator up in a tree with a bow and arrow half the year meditating soulfully in anticipation to kill unsuspecting meat-infested herbivores.”

Years Half Tree Flow Brilliant Meat Reasoning Dedicated Bows Anticipation Arrows Predator Meditating Unsuspecting Bows And Arrows

Author:Ted Nugent

“California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else.”

People Thinking Ideas Seems Opportunity Tree Sky Concepts Optimism Blue Endless Beach California Sunset Palms Gorgeous Blue Sky Palm Trees Endless Opportunities

Author:Mark Hoppus

“Even though it was January, in Los Angeles it was beautiful and sunny and the blue skies were out and it was hot everyday, so I think it was just a product of our environment. And California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else. But there's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.”

“The concept of karma is a beautiful concept in Sanskrit. The whole idea of karma is that every being has an innate tendency - the karma of ice is to be cold, the karma of fire is to burn, the karma of the trees is to grow and bear fruit. In the same way, a human has a certain thrust. What I've realized is that my thrust is to be in the world, like in the world of business.”

World Way Humans Ideas Whole Beautiful Certain Grows Fire Tree Cold Bears Concepts Fruit Karma Tendencies Ice Innate Thrust Sanskrit

Author:Karan Bajaj

“Eating vegetables, fruits and grains rarely causes total destruction of the plant or tree on which the food grew; after harvesting, seeds remain to be replanted the next season. But this certainly does not happen when an animal is slaughtered - death is final; that animal will not reproduce again!”

Doe Happens Next Causes Animal Tree Grew Eating Destruction Seasons Plant Fruit Finals Seeds Vegetables Grain

Author:Sharon Gannon

“It's something I passed on to my kids. They really love the earth because they've experienced it from the youngest age. They know where food comes from - it doesn't come from the Safeway bush or the Ralph's tree. It comes from the earth. And water and sunshine and nutrients. My children understand that because they've experienced it. I feel successful as a parent, having done that.”

Knows Feels Children Done Kids Age Earth Parent Water Successful Tree My Children Sunshine Nutrients

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“Since half of all trees cut go to making paper, the only meaningful way to address destruction of our forest is to change the way paper is made.”

Way Made Half Cutting Tree Paper Destruction Meaningful Forests Addresses

Author:Woody Harrelson

“I have been attempting to meditate more. Golf is my state of peace, though. The tranquility of a golf course, all of the trees, the oxygen. It puts me right at ease.”

Has Beens States Courses Tree Golf Ease Tranquility Oxygen Attempting Golf Course

Author:Mpho Koaho

“"So we'd get in a horse and buggy and we would go and park under a tree and we'd read poetry to each other." And my grandfather told me all the stories. I mean, their way of communicating... They didn't have telephones, either, so they communicated with the written word. And I really... That's how old [Bill] Clinton has become to me [speaking of how he met Hillary Clinton].”

Way Mean Stories Written Tree Mets Horse Bills Clinton Communicate Parks Grandfather Telephones My Grandfather Written Word

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“In order for my live performance to work, which is about generating a focused energy for about an hour and a half, it is necessary for me to listen and take in someone else's focused energy the day of or the day before the live show. That can transpire through a conversation, or inspiration can occur by looking through any type of visual book which sparks a narrative. That narrative then becomes today's seed and can then take root in music terms, where a sonic tree begins to grow.”

Book Shows Inspiration Today Order Energy Grows Term Hours Half Tree Type Conversation Roots Performances Focused Seeds Narrative Visuals Sparks Live Performance

Author:Tori Amos

“I recently went for a walk in a state park and found that some of my favorite trees had collapsed. It makes me feel vulnerable, personally and for my children.”

Feels Children States Found Walks Tree My Favorite Vulnerable My Children Parks

Author:Laura Regan

“The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.”

Self Reality Moving Law Universe Next Force Tree Divine Expression Baby Aspect Invisible Compensation Bud Oaks Correcting Embryos Acorns Oak Tree

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.”

Want Body Tree Good Things Your Body Release Atmosphere Carbon

Author:William McDonough

“Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as a young girl, whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the woods. Being in the stillness and grandeur of trees had always calmed me.”

Young Girl Felt Walks Growing Up Growing Tree Woods Stillness Overwhelmed Grandeur Pacific Pacific Northwest Walk In The Woods

Author:Brenda Strong

“I realized that a tree never says, "I have too many branches." It simply digs deeper roots, expands itself to catch more light, and extends itself in multiple directions so as not to be unevenly weighted.”

Light Tree Roots Deeper I Realized Branches Multiple Dig Deep

Author:Brenda Strong

“Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.”

Mean Enough Strong Break Support Seeing Tree Balance Circumstances Roots Faster Continuing Flexible Strong Enough Trunks Support Me Pushovers

Author:Brenda Strong

“Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if you cut down trees, then they'll grow back. You take fish, they recover. You put stuff into the atmosphere that you know is not good for us, but we can still breathe. We haven't awakened, generally, to the sense of urgency that does exist.”

“We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws.”

Water Tree Land Roots Wings Fishes Lakes Rice Paws Maple Syrup Fins Maple Syrup Aquifers

Author:Winona LaDuke

“We are having to pull money into site-level protection for elephants just to keep them alive. But there isn't enough money to go around. The people involved in protecting those elephants, like rangers on the ground, are so under-resourced. They have very few vehicles, they have very poor weapons (if any weapons at all), and they are treated as the bottom of the tree when it comes to law enforcement priority.”

People Ifs Enough Law Poor Levels Alive Tree Involved Weapons Bottom Protection Priorities Treated Vehicle Site Elephants Law Enforcement Enforcement Rangers

Author:Allen Crawford

“I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children. A stunning place, with a magnificent forest of trees, and a magnificent river.”

Children Ideas Tree Land Rivers Leaving Forests Legacy My Children Magnificent Old Fashioned Stunning

Author:Val Kilmer

“Trees ask us to examine how we live in the natural world, with one another, and intrapersonally.”

World Asks Natural Tree Natural World

Author:Greg Reitman

“If we value ourselves, we value trees; if we treat our environment right, we treat ourselves right.”

Ifs Values Environment Tree Treats Our Environment

Author:Greg Reitman

“There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.”

Humans Animal Tree Rivers Living Things Humans And Animals Differentiation

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“When you are balancing perfectly in a tree pose, everything is easy; your breath is deep and relaxed, and your muscles are working for you just as you'd like. It's pure and simple. Efficient. When you are having a great day, the same things occur. Your breathing is relaxed, your body is working harmoniously with your mind; everything just feels easier because you are in a state of balance.”

Feels Mind States Body Easy Simple Tree Balance Easier Pure Breaths Your Body Breathing Muscles Efficient Relaxed Great Day Have A Great Day

Book:Yoga Cures (Enhanced Edition): Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free

Source: Yoga Cures (Enhanced Edition): Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free

“Your tree pose is going crazy and you're falling; and your leg is burning; and it feels impossible to maintain any sort of stability practice observing what's happening instead of getting wrapped up in the circumstance. If you can learn to be easy with your breath in these moments, your body and mind will follow.”

Ifs Feels Mind Moments Body Fall Easy Practice Impossible Tree Crazy Circumstances Happenings Breaths Legs Your Body Burning Stability Observing Mind And Body Going Crazy

Author:Tara Stiles

“When your breathing is easy and deep, your body works efficiently, and your mind settles. That doesn't mean that your balance (in tree pose or anywhere else) will be perfect and your life will be seamless, but you'll be better equipped to deal with the wobbles and earthquakes that get thrown into the mix.”

Mind Mean Body Easy Perfect Deals Tree Balance Your Body Breathing Settling Thrown Earthquakes Mind Set Seamless Body Work

Book:Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free

Source: Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free

“You can fall out of a tree pose with ease, or with frustration and a sense of defeat. Just like you can take a spill in your life and decide to dust yourself off - with a chuckle or an annoyed grunt - and get back up, or you can stay down, lie there, and give up. It's entirely up to you. It's your life, and your practice.”

Giving Lying Fall Practice Tree Like You Giving Up Defeat Dust Ease Frustration Get Back Up To You Annoyed Spills Grunt Chuckles Dust Yourself Off

Book:Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free

Source: Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free

“A successful tree pose probably won't change your life. Learning how to keep your breath easy, long, and deep no matter what the circumstance? That absolutely will.”

Long Matter Easy Successful Tree Circumstances Breaths No Matter What Changing Your Life Life Learning

Book:Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free

Source: Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free

“Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.”

Humanity Tree Talent Dangerous Human Nature Fruit Lovely Thoughtful Memories Dreams Reflections Slender Niece Great Talent Twigs Fruit Trees

Author:Carl Jung

“Essentially, my kids grew up with the emphasis on the environment because I became a political activist in about 1969 and it was not an easy time. Those were the days when the oil and gas companies pretty much controlled the show and anybody speaking about solar energy or carbon energy would get smashed down as being a radical or a tree-hugger or what have you. So I was out there feeling very often alone and my kids would get that.”

Shows Feelings Kids Political Energy Easy Company Environment Tree Grew Grew Up Oil Radical Gas Activist Controlled Carbon Emphasis Oil And Gas Solar Energy

Author:Robert Redford

“The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position could not readily share in many of the most important of them. Not sharing in them, their meaning would not be communicated to him, would not become a part of his own mental disposition. There would be no seeing the trees because of the forest. Business, politics, art, science, religion, would make all at once a clamor for attention; confusion would be the outcome.”

Children Art Important Would Be Social Attention Seeing Tree Share Position Forests Confusion Outcomes Disposition Social Life Science Religion Clamor

Book:Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy.”

Stills Book Tree My Favorite Things To Do Climbing Good Book Favorites Things Climbing Trees

Author:Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

“Marijuana was made illegal because of William Randolph Hearst, the big newspaper guy. He owned thousands of acres of timberland and he didn't want hemp to be used for paper, he wanted to force everyone to buy his trees. And that's why he was the one that spearheaded making it illegal in Washington. Always follow the money, it's done for money purposes.”

Want Made Done Bigs Wanted Used Purpose Guy Force Tree Paper Newspapers Illegal Marijuana Acres Hemp

Author:Jesse Ventura

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