Isa. 61: 3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give
unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise
for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness,
the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
I’ve been in a contemplative mood this week and I seek to
let some things go, some things grow and I desire to branch out and seek. I
choose quotes that start me thinking.
~ TREE ~
“I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a
living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around
me.”
~ John Knowles, A Separate Peace
“Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding
whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the
highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many
people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a
splinter.”
~ Lemony Snicket
“And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one
man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to
people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth
suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she
finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it
was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.”
~ Douglas Adams
“Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt.
Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently,
because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for
life...”
~ Elizabeth Goudge
~ LEAF ~
“Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.
Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it
grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.
Their language has been lost.
But not the gestures.”
~ Vera Nazarian
“A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to
the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it
strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most
vital of creatures?”
~ Ivan Turgenev
“There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf,
singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.”
~ Dejan Stojanovic
“There is an eternal love between the water drop and the
leaf. When you look at them, you can see that they both shine out of
happiness.”
~ Mehmet Murat ildan
~ BRANCH ~
“There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and
then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is
the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't
think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the
branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?”
~ Gabrielle Zevin
“Be like a branch of a tree; flex your body to face 'wind of
sorrow'; flex little harder to dance in the 'wind of happiness'.”
~ Santosh Kalwar
“The man journeyed far, and he heard and saw many
strange things on his travels. He learned that - that the friend and the enemy
are but two faces of the same self. That the path one believes chosen long
since, constant and unchangeable, straight and wide, can alter in an instant.
Can branch, and twist and lead the traveler to places far beyond his wildest
imaginings. That there are mysteries beyond the mind of mortal man, and that to
deny their existence is to spend a life of half-consciousness.”
~ Juliet Marillier
