Charles Fort Quotes

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God, that all good growth is slow growth.

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

Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.

Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.

You cannot force spiritual things. A testimony is not thrust upon you; it grows. And a testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large. We become taller in our testimony like we grow in physical stature and hardly know it is happening, because it comes by growth.

A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.

Either things grow and change or they die.

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.

A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given momentin the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

We all have to go through the tumbler a few times before we can emerge as a crystal.

...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here rises and sets at six exactly. A caterpillar becomes a butterfly. A bird raises its brood in the forest and a greenheart tree will only grow from a greenheart seed. He brings drought sometimes followed by torrential rains and if these things aren’t always what I had in mind, they aren’t my punishment either. They’re rewards, let’s say for the patience of a seed.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

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

If you don't like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn't enough, change it. If something doesn't suit you, change it. If something doesn't please you, change it. You don't ever have to be the same after today. If you don't like your present address change it - you're not a tree!

It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.

A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.

Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.