Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Clouds Quotes, Tree Quotes

Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--

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Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

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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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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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

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As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material.

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Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

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I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.

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From a withered tree, a flower blooms

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Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.

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Would there be trees if we didn't see them?

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Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

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A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

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Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

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