- Nov 07, 2020
Tree Quotes
On roots, quiet places, and things we take for granted.
One quote describes selling a house in L.A. to move out to the high desert near Joshua Tree, trading city life for wide-open quiet. See more in our Life quotes.
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- Politician
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
- Hypocrite
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- Nov 07, 2020
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
- Consistency
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
- Nov 07, 2020
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one point, I shook a tree full of fire ants on my head just to have some pain to distract me from my aching feet so that I could continue to walk.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020