I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.
What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.
Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener.
I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.
They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.
It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.