"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 bo or peepul tree."

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Source : "Why woodlands are wonderful" by Colin Tudge, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2010.

Colin Tudge

#Plato Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Tree Quotes

“The only atheism is the denial of truth.”

Source : Arthur Lynch (1929). “The rosy fingers: the building forms of thought and action in the new era”
“The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.”

Source : "'Awards stink. Especially when other people win them and you don't'". BFI interview, www.bfi.org.uk. March 10, 2003.
“You can feel that something terrible is going on in another place in the world, and it's the other, it's not you. It's always there, it's them. But this them is also you.”
“My life is better with every year of living it.”
“I always have an idea before we even start the movie because if you hire the wrong person, within a couple of days you're going to know that and you're going to be really panicked.”
“Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.”
“If you have problems in your life, donâ€™t assume there is something wrong with you.”

Source : "The Atonement:All for All". Bruce C. Hafen's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2004.
“Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws..”

Source : Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011). “Uprising”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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