Stephen Girard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.
-- Stephen Girard

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When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.
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.
When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
You know what shows today are missing? Stars.
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep todayâ€™s happiness I wouldnâ€™t worry about tomorrow.Â
Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.
If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

Stephen Girard famous quotes

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