“Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance to believe once more than the world was beautiful and sensible, that the mad absurdities and cruelties of men were against the laws of Nature and the Universal Mind; that sooner or later violence would suffer utter defeat on this Earth. No words collected in books were more effectively convincing to me than foliage, clouds, rippling waters, rain.” PeopleMenWorldGivingMindBelieveBookSoulEarthBeautifulLawSufferingWaterNatureChanceViolenceTreeFlowerRainUniversalMadDefeatCloudsMeaningfulCrueltySensibleSooner Or LaterAbsurdityConvincingLaws Of NatureFoliage Author:Svetlana Alliluyeva
“Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under the trees they drew Him last: 'Twas on a tree they slew Him--last When out of the woods He came.” LastsViolenceTreeMastersShameWoods Book:Poems of Sidney Lanier Source: Poems of Sidney Lanier
“My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.” BeautifulBornLove IsViolenceTreePaintingEatingViolentLandscapeScreamInsectsFear Of DeathParts Of LifeMosquitoesMaybe LoveBeautiful Landscapes Author:Francis Bacon
“Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.” BeautifulViolenceTreeEatingLandscapeInsectsParts Of LifeBeautiful Landscapes Author:Francis Bacon
“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.” GoneCuttingViolenceTreeGrewAbsenceShockFarmersFirewood 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.” IfsYearsViolenceTreeOne DayIncrediblesShock Author:Andy Goldsworthy