Laurie Anderson Quotes

I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more.

There are many ways to inspire healing of the earth, all relating to the tree truth that everything is interconnected. We ourselves are trees. Each time we see a tree, outside us or within us, we can remember that they reflect the truth. Something deeply rooted, something with a strong trunk, something that sweeps the sky.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.

You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is.

In trees, I see expression and soul

I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way to ourselves.

Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.

The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

Don't be too eager to grow up. It ain't as much fun as it looks

Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'