#trees

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#away #best #call #growing #institutions

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#grow #solitary #strong #trees

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#dancing #first #gave #grandfather #guitar

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#neighbours #other #than #trees

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? ↗

— Alice Walker

#bouquets #dance #ever #everything #except

How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million? ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

#guy #how #jane #make #me

I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here. ↗

— Morris West

#been #birds #corner #cosmos #creation

I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down. ↗

— Dar Williams

#cans #down #erosion #fall #happens

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel. ↗

— Kim Weston

#could #found #i #never #nudes

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#better #everything #person #point #point of view