Jim Woodring Quotes

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Now air is the cause and spirit of every life and motion in the world, be it in flesh or in any of the vegetables; all whatever is hath its life from the air, and nothing whatsoever that moveth and is in this world can subsist without air.

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.

The universe is a great mystery.

It's fascinating how life works.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

To be existing at all is beautiful simply because of how complicated and unexplainable being alive really is.

A tree's wood is also its memoir.

Trees are complicated, fascinating things, usually older and more beautiful than any of us.

Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

The universe is still a place of mystery and wonder.

Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.