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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And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?

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Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

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I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.

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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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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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Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.

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The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

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Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

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Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis. 'I feel so rotten about myself. I don't produce as much acorns as the one next to me.'

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The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

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It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.

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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 weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

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And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

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Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

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So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.

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If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

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If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

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