Brian Aldiss Quotes

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

All things that come into being and grow are earth and water.

Like a mountain that's growing.

I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.

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

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.

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

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

I see my trees repair their boughs.

Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.

That world is growing in this minute.

The nature of life is to grow.

It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.

When you stop growing you start dying.

Time is the great workman of Nature.