“Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin' the tree.
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin' the tree.”
The quote "Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin' the tree. Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We …" is famous quote attributed to Peter Gabriel (1950), English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian.
Shaking the Tree, written by Peter Gabriel and Youssou N'Dour
Translation: If we had known, if we only had known.
Song lyrics, Shaking the Tree (1990)
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English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian 1950Related quotes
83, a slight variant of this was later published in Parables and Paradoxes (1946):
We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we find ourselves is sinful, quite independent of guilt.
Also quoted in this form in The Parables of Peanuts (1968) by Robert L. Short, and Like a Dream, Like a Fantasy: The Zen Teachings and Translations of Nyogen (2005)
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Context: We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
“and even the trees we walked
under
seemed
less than
trees
and more like everything
else.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Quoted in BBC News, "India President Pratibha Patil cautions on reform" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-16724191, January 25, 2012.
Redwood Tree
Song lyrics, Saint Dominic's Preview (1972)
As quoted in "Lincoln's Imagination" by Noah Brooks, in Scribner's Monthly (August 1879), p. 586 http://books.google.com/books?id=jOoGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA586
Posthumous attributions
Variant: Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
