#trees

Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done. ↗

— Peter King

#authoritative #being #bosnia #deliberate #done

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees. ↗

— Andres Segovia

#above #advice #always #am #beautiful

Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements. ↗

— John Sexton

#consciously #elements #experience #forest #found

The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal. ↗

— John Sexton

#day #first #found #i #i remember

Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#common #defined #else #essential #fire

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#around #bamboo #doing #gravel #i

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#earth #effort #endless #heaven #listening

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#cannot #find #flowers #found #friend

Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character. ↗

— John Thaw

#great #great character #grow #like #morse

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#being #destroyed #ecology #growing #growing up