Alain de Botton Quotes, Roots Quotes, Tree Quotes

How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.

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We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it.

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Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

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Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

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The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

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He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

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We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.

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And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

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she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.

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Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

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We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.

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I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

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Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

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How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

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A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

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