“Trees don't grow to the sky.”
Louis Rukeyser (1933–2006) American journalist
On the inevitablility of down markets as well as up markets
July 26, 2002, Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street
“Trees don't grow to the sky.”
Louis Rukeyser (1933–2006) American journalist
On the inevitablility of down markets as well as up markets
July 26, 2002, Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street
“When nations grow old, the Arts grow cold,
And Commerce settles on every tree.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
On Art And Artists (1800) 'On the Foundation of the Royal Academy'
“A tree cannot grow in its parents’ shadows.”
Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), Chapter 7 (p. 82)
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
On Art And Artists (1800) 'On the Foundation of the Royal Academy'
1800s
“The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“They sailed away for a year and a day
To the land where the bong-tree grows.”
Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussycat
St. 2.
The Owl and the Pussycat (1871)
“[Translated]: The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.”
Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac (1755–1841) French politician, freemason, journalist, and one of the most notorious members of the National Convention …
L'arbre de la liberté ne croit qu'arrosé par le sang des tyrans.
Speech in the Convention Nationale, 1792.