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"What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 322. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever. A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree." »Diane Frolov
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"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all." »Ogden Nash
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"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing." »Abraham Lincoln
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"He who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many branches and few roots, which the first wind throws down; whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot." »The Talmud
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"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon'" »John F. Kennedy
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"Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandad' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss" »Nikos Kazantzakis
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"There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man." »Novalis
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"Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Every man is the builder of a temple called his body." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple." »Robert Ingersoll, On Isadora Duncan
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"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones." »Rabindranath Tagore
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"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high- class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley temple could do it at the age of four." »Katharine Hepburn
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"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley temple could do it at the age of four." »Katharine Hepburn
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"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams." »Robert J. Kibbee
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"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history." »Carl Rowen
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"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness." »Dalai Lama
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"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." »Dalai Llama
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"Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If ever a man could have felt the church to be unnecessary, he was Jesus. Yet he did not stay away form the church of his day. It was his custom to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and he made many trips to the temple." »R. Brokhoff
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"They used to photograph Shirley temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum." »Tallulah Bankhead
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"They used to photograph Shirley temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum." »Tallulah Bankhead
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"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." »I. F. Stone
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"Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade." »Persian Proverb
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"You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm." »Publilius Syrus
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"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." »Thomas Fuller
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