David Novak Quotes

More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.

A tree without roots will fall over, whereas a tree with roots eventually becomes part of a forest.

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

Think about a seed. Once it lands, it's stuck. It can't move to find better soil, moisture or sunlight. It's able to create every part of itself to grow and reproduce with the help of air, water and sun.

Without rain, there is no life.

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much.

My fans need me. I need me.

The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing. But the roots are there.

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

If you don't eat, don't worry about the farmer.

Four legs on a chair, to me, represent a strong foundation and always knowing where I come from.

You have to latch onto somebody while you're working.

We might depend on each other a bit too much and use that as a crutch, but it's not entirely a bad thing.

I'm self-sufficient, but it's brilliant to have people in your life that you love, who love you and are important to you.

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

I don't see any independent position that I'm in; it's rather inter-dependent.

You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.

Sometimes its nice when people you love need you.

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

Family is what grounds you.

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.