Great Original Quotes

NATURE

"To lie beneath a tree and gaze up at its crown is a most wonderful way to spend an afternoon." -J. Lenza III

"To know something about trees--about even one tree--is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in it." -- Gerald Jonas

"Neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who makes things grow" Apostle Paul, 1Cor3:7 NIV

"Trees are good for contemplation: Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a peepul tree." Why We Should Revere Trees, -Colin Tudge

Philosophy

"The way we spend our days, of course, is the way we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard, American Author

"Love is pain--or something so close the difference is trivial. Think, man--any time you truly, selflessly loved someone, it caused you pain." -J. Lenza III, self proclaimed "jackass philosoher"

"Love is not pain, as some would have you believe--it's more acturately described as sacrifice. It's possible to love without sacrificing--but who would notice? For love is demonstrated only through sacrifice--without it, it is invisible." -Dr. Christopher Knight

DREAMS -

"In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on thier beds, when he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings, that he may turn aside from his deed and conceal pride from a man" Job 33:15-17 ESV

"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?" Leonardo da Vinci

"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy." Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900.

"Whoso regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind." Apopcrypha, Ecclesiasticus 34:2.

"Learn from your dreams what you lack." W.H. Auden (1907-73), English poet and playwright.

"Once upon a time, I, Chuang-tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, flittering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly...suddenly I awoke... Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man." Chuang-tzu, Art of War

"Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then we may perhaps find the truth." F.A. Keule, German chemist, who while trying to discover the molecular structure of benzene, became stumped and so remained until he stumbled upon the answer in his dreams.

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on." William Shakespeare

"Captain Flume slept like a log most nights and merely DREAMED he was awake. So convincing were these dreams of lying awake that he awoke from them each morning in complete exhaustion and fell right back to sleep." Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961.